Research shows self-ratings of personality traits like diligence are generally more accurate than ratings from others.
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Many people lived long enough to grow old in the olden days, too.
They are expected to be cheaper to build and even more reliable than today’s nuclear plants.
If you guessed “staying up all night to play video games,” you’d be right.
Using cellulose from trees and a synthetic polymer, MIT researchers have created a material that “is stronger and tougher than some types of bone, and harder than typical aluminum alloys.”
Some say that the Sun is a green-yellow color, but our human eyes see it as white, or yellow-to-red during sunset. What color is it really?
Why, exactly, should you die for your child?
This flying car — more properly called an “electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicle”
— will seat five and fly up to 135 mph.
NASA was dangerously cavalier about the dangers of the shuttle launches.
Hubble revolutionized astronomy more than once. Here’s what we can expect from the James Webb Space Telescope.
Einstein’s “happiest thought” led to General Relativity’s formulation. Would a different profound insight have led us forever astray?
When Tal Golesworthy was told he was at risk of his aorta bursting, he wasn’t impressed with the surgery on offer – so he came up with his own idea.
Venus Life Finder could launch as early as 2023.
Without Étienne-Joseph-Théophile Thoré, the genius of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer would have been lost to time.
When the Universe was first born, the ingredients necessary for life were nowhere to be found. Only our “lucky stars” enabled our existence.
From Atlantis to Thule, these mythical locales have captivated people’s imaginations for centuries.
Argentina’s black market for cash is embracing crypto — but it’s not what crypto proponents expected.
The artifacts were often made from found objects – an Ivory dish-soap bottle transformed into an earthenware figure.
Shoving platelet-rich plasma up your nose might restore your sense of smell after COVID. But whether it actually works still needs to be sniffed out.
A small study suggests that IMST is as effective as medications or 30 minutes of aerobic exercise.
Billions of years ago, the ever-increasing entropy must’ve been much lower: the past hypothesis. Here’s how cosmic inflation solves it.
As interest rates rise, the “dead pledge” may live up to its name.
Eric Olson — CEO and co-founder of Consensus — takes his cues from the university of legendary coaches.
The sober reality behind the effectiveness of two new drugs touted as Alzheimer’s breakthroughs: lecanemab and donanemab.
Much of the discussion began during the pandemic, which really brought mental health issues to the forefront.
Nobel Laureate Roger Penrose, famed for his work on black holes, claims we’ve seen evidence from a prior Universe. Only, we haven’t.
Wizbang innovations capture the public’s imagination, but thoughtful, incremental development is often more valuable to those in need.
The zero-point energy of empty space is not zero. Even with all the physics we know, we have no idea how to calculate what it ought to be.
Despite the Sun’s high core temperatures, particles can’t quite overcome their mutual electric repulsion. Good thing for quantum physics!