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In a time when we dislike and distrust our politicians, why can’t we get more popular leaders like Kim Jong Un and Bashar al-Assad?
The Shirky Principle states that “institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.”
Ancient currents seemed to move in concert with a 2.4 million-year dance between the Red Planet and Earth.
The 1,200-year-old “Book of Ingenious Devices” contains designs for futuristic inventions like gas masks, water fountains, and digging machines.
Dinosaurs and other beasts were once thought to be the “undisputed masters” of Venus.
Epigenetic entropy shows that you can’t fully understand cancer without mathematics.
Catastrophes are difficult to predict because they are so rare. But AI using active learning can make predictions from very small data sets.
We will believe in AGI when it calls on Facetime.
In general, 5G is not a threat to human health or activities, but there are some legitimate questions about interference with airplane instruments.
Bloodcurdling war cries, shrieking elephants, and whistling arrows all made soldiers flee in terror.
The mountain can generate lenticular clouds, which may contribute to its supernatural reputation.
The space‑specific neurons in the owl’s specialized auditory brain can do advanced math.
Before there were planets, stars, and galaxies, before even neutral atoms or stable protons, there was the Big Bang. How did we prove it?
After 15 years of monitoring 68 objects known as millisecond pulsars, we’ve found the Universe’s background gravitational wave signal!
Since 1962, humanity has been sending messages into space with the intent to make contact with intelligent extraterrestrials. Are those efforts worth the risks?
A new artificial intelligence method removes the effect of gravity on cosmic images, showing the real shapes of distant galaxies.
Measurements of the acceleration of the universe don’t agree, stumping physicists working to understand the cosmic past and future. A new proposal seeks to better align these estimates — and is likely testable.
The neutrino is the most ghostly, rarely-interacting particle in all the Standard Model. How well can we truly make “beams” out of them?
Communication among cetaceans, like whales and dolphins, looks especially promising.
Could a theory from the science of perception help crack the mysteries of psychosis?
The modern attention economy hijacks our ability to focus, but an ancient technique offers a means to get it back.
Helplessness isn’t learned — it’s an instinctual response that can be overcome.
If you have an old TV set with the “rabbit ear” antennae, and you set it to channel 03, that snowy static can reveal the Big Bang itself.
The debate goes back at least 400 years.
Quantum mechanics has taught us that even empty space contains energy. “Negative energy” is the state of having less energy than empty space.
Noise causes stress. For our ancestors, it meant danger: thunder, animal roars, war cries, triggering a ‘fight or run’ reaction.
Tasting sounds and hearing colors.
Historians have been able to piece together a clear picture of how the average Roman citizen spent their waking hours.