A small proof-of-concept study shows smartphones could help detect drunkenness based on the way you walk.
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1859’s Carrington event gave us a preview of how catastrophic the Sun could be for humanity. But it could get even worse than we imagined.
Legendary cartoonist John Groth’s pictorial map captures LA’s film factories in their Golden Age.
Out of all the galaxies we know, only a few little ones are missing dark matter. At last, we finally understand why.
Our ultimate fate depends on something we’ve barely begun to measure. One of the biggest mysteries in all of physics is dark energy. According to our best observations, the Universe cannot […]
Archaeology clues us in on the dangers of letting viruses hang around.
Want some crazy space phenomena? You don’t have to leave the neighborhood for it.
And Dr. Jill Tarter never once lost her composure.
And what might we learn as we collect new, never-before-seen data? If you took one of history’s top scientists from 100 years ago and dropped them into today’s world, what […]
The most unpleasant aspect of intellectual liberalism is that when speech causes emotional or mental pain, the offended parties are morally entitled to nothing.
Thought expriments are great tools, but do they always do what we want them to?
When searching for extraterrestrial life, astronomers may want to look at planets with hydrogen-rich atmospheres.
A new study sheds light on the final supernovae of the Universe.
How many potentially habitable planets are there? We sincerely don’t know. One of the most compelling scientific goals humanity has set for itself is to find extraterrestrial life: biological activity originating […]
The key? A computational flattening algorithm.
It’s a common misconception that to be a Stoic is to be in possession of a stiff upper lip.
Among history’s many thought leaders, Plato may sport the most impressive resume of the bunch. The Athenian philosopher founded the Academy. His Dialogues are required reading at every institution of […]
When the COVID-19 crisis is over, how will education have changed? Will we have made the most of this moment?
The planet is making a lot less noise during lockdown.
Batrachopus grandis, an ancient crocodylomorph, may have chased down land prey on its own two feet.
When one group says “A” and another group says “B,” consider that everyone might be wrong. One of the biggest enemies of scientific truth is the setup of a false dichotomy. […]
Because of our ability to think about thinking, “the gap between ape and man is immeasurably greater than the one between amoeba and ape.”
After the 2011 Fukushima disaster, it was Germany, not Japan, that cracked down most severely on nuclear power plants.
There is no going “back to normal.”
If a crisis like this only comes once in a hundred years, so does this opportunity.
Deniers will never stop misleading others. Here’s the truth. Every so often, advocates of a fringe theory — one that doesn’t fit the evidence as well as the mainstream theory — do what they can […]
In recent years, women have made incredible strides in the business world. Forty-one women currently lead Fortune 500 companies. While that remains an unacceptably low percentage (8 percent) overall, it […]
If the idea of freedom bound Camus and Sartre philosophically, then the fight for justice united them politically.
“The results change the perception of who a Viking actually was,” said project leader Professor Eske Willerslev.
Even without the greatest individual scientist of all, every one of his great scientific advances would still have occurred. Eventually.