In all the Universe, only a few particles are eternally stable. The photon, the quantum of light, has an infinite lifetime. Or does it?
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Many Americans aren’t rejecting spirituality, just practicing it differently.
It’s not a huge leap to imagine we could target the biological processes that mediate our behaviours.
There’s a big difference between the notions of ‘false vacuum’ and ‘true vacuum’ states. Here’s why we don’t want to live in the former.
The U.S. economy is creating thousands of new jobs each month–and overwhelmingly, most of them go to people with education beyond high school.
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A recently identified stage of sleep common to narcoleptics is a fertile source of creativity.
“Who ya gonna believe: me or your own eyes?” Until you can assess your perception, the answer should be neither.
As the world warms, trees in forests such as those in Minnesota will no longer be adapted to their local climates. That’s where assisted migration comes in.
Practically all of the matter we see and interact with is made of atoms, which are mostly empty space. Then why is reality so… solid?
The passage of time is something we all experience, as it takes us from one moment to the next. But could it all just be an illusion?
But it’s still challenging to build a 22,000-mile elevator.
The structure of our Solar System has been known for centuries. When we finally started finding exoplanets, they surprised everyone.
Our thermodynamic arrow of time explains why the entropy of any isolated system always increases. But it can’t explain what we perceive.
Simple “nudges” to remind people to show up for court could help keep thousands out of jail.
Mindfulness may be especially useful for gaining more control of your impulses to spend.
AI researcher and author Ken Stanley wonders how our rear-view perspective on success fits into a serendipitous mode of innovation.
Contrary to popular research, people with more money are happier, but it’s their spending habits, not their account balances, that move the dial.
Each year, over half a million migrants cross the deadly jungle separating Colombia from Panama in search of a better life in the United States.
Day trading has the potential to yield incredible profits, but without a time machine, you’re unlikely to achieve them.
The combination of charge conjugation, parity, and time-reversal symmetry is known as CPT. And it must never be broken. Ever.
Break into London Zoo? Illegal, but it would improve the London Circle Walk
There are pros and cons to sending interstellar messages to aliens that may or may not exist.
New research finds that dinosaurs were already adapted to living in cold climates before the end-Triassic mass extinction. But how?
Psychedelics mess with our prior beliefs, and could help us see what forms these beliefs in the first place.
You open an app and start scrolling, then suddenly it’s an hour later. Sound familiar?
By challenging your preconceptions, art offers a framework by which you can solve problems.
In order to figure out how English might evolve in the future, we have to look at how it has changed in the near and distant past.
Crystallization is an entirely random process, so scientists have developed clever ways to investigate it at a molecular level.
Using data collected from ancient civilizations across the world, researchers identified the most significant factors in human development. War came out on top.
Lasers are all around you. This ubiquitous technology came from our understanding of quantum physics.