The “scientific Buddha” and the idea of Buddhist exceptionalism with regard to science are modern creations.
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Seeking life beyond the Solar System, we first look to the closest star systems with Earth-like planets. Here’s why that’s not good enough.
The controversial theory about magic mushrooms and human evolution gets a much-needed update.
If the Universe is expanding, and the expansion is accelerating, what does that tell us about the cause of the expanding Universe?
What we call “basic research” is actually the most cutting-edge. It underpins knowledge, and without it, technology does not come into being.
For many years, cosmologists have claimed the Universe is 13.8 billion years old. A new paper says no, it’s 26.7 billion. How do we decide?
Viruses, it turns out, can block one another and take turns to dominate.
NASA’s space telescopes and observatories bring humanity unrivaled science images and scientific discoveries. Here’s what should be next.
The National Ignition Facility just repeated, and improved upon, their earlier demonstration of nuclear fusion. Now, the true race begins.
Are you unhappy with how various events in your life turned out? Perhaps, in a parallel Universe, things worked out very differently.
Passing chunks of ice can fertilize ocean waters and play a role in the planet’s carbon cycle.
Neutrons can be stable when bound into an atomic nucleus, but free neutrons decay away in mere minutes. So how are neutron stars stable?
Day trading has the potential to yield incredible profits, but without a time machine, you’re unlikely to achieve them.
Don’t argue with science. Just do it.
Awe-inspiring moments can be found in our daily lives, and they have surprising benefits for our health and sense of well-being.
You’ve spent almost a decade gaining extremely specialized skills. But that’s ok; your value is greater than you realize.
A Carrington-magnitude event would kill millions, and cause trillions of dollars in damage. Sadly, it isn’t even the worst-case scenario.
Each of our three nearest stars might have an Earth-like planet in orbit around it. Here’s what we’ll learn when we finally observe it.
Most exoplanets have been found around single stars via the transit method. But binary star systems might contain even more of them.
In all the Universe, only a few particles are eternally stable. The photon, the quantum of light, has an infinite lifetime. Or does it?
Society treats teenagers as if they’re a problem to be solved, but the truth is that we have to prepare them to solve our problems. It’s time that we change the narrative.
“The digital HQ – the digital infrastructure that supports productivity and collaboration – actually became more important than the physical HQ.”
The way to understand the earliest moments of creation is to recreate those conditions and study them. Why would we stop now?
It’s all well and good to discuss how our humanity evolved – but what even is humanity?
For some reason, when we talk about the age of stars, galaxies, and the Universe, we use “years” to measure time. Can we do better?
Dennis Klatt developed trailblazing text-to-speech systems before losing his own voice to cancer.
Earth is not a benign mother. We have begun to witness what happens when it unleashes its fury.
As particles travel through the Universe, there’s a speed limit to how fast they’re allowed to go. No, not the speed of light: below it.