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For many, 2020 will not be remembered as a “best of” much. We don’t need to repeat the reasons here; it’s sufficient to point out that a 100-year pandemic was […]
These new status behaviours are what one expert calls ‘inconspicuous consumption’.
Even physicists sometimes fall for these. For centuries, the laws of physics seemed completely deterministic. If you knew where every particle was, how fast it was moving, and what the forces […]
The platform experiments with letting users decide what content needs flagging.
A cartogram makes it easy to compare regional and national GDPs at a glance.
It turns out, letting your partner know you appreciate them leads to a stronger relationship. Who’d have thunk?
While our world is in a period of indefinite stasis, people’s needs aren’t. Now is the time to become positive disruptors, creating the transformations that need to happen to make […]
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There are scientifically proven ways you can improve your self-esteem, right now.
All scientific theories, at some level, are wrong. That’s why consensus is so vital. There are two important and common words that, when used scientifically, have a very different meaning than […]
The first supernova ever discovered through its X-rays has an enormously powerful engine at its core. It’s unlike anything ever seen.
How slight differences could have forever changed our cosmic history. 13.8 billion years ago, what we know today as our Universe began with the hot Big Bang. Filled with matter, antimatter […]
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 […]
She’s the reason you’re able to work and chat from home.
Evolutionary success is not about the number of one’s children, but one’s grandchildren: the children need to survive and pass on their genes.
The very concept of a “problem with no solution” goes against human nature. But we must accept this harsh reality to have peace in our lives.
Researchers say that moral self-licensing occurs “because good deeds make people feel secure in their moral self-regard.”
‘Little kids, little problems; big kids, big problems.’
A new study discovers the likelihood of extraterrestrial life in the universe.
If a large asteroid strikes Earth, it has the potential to release an enormous amount of energy, leading to local or even global catastrophes. The strike that led to the […]
Non-partisans are real, and their lack of partisanship has a cognitive element.
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. […]
Research from Ohio State finds that acetaminophen affects our emotions.
Some hold that mental disorders are brain diseases. Others argue that they’re social constructs used to medicalise aberrant behaviour.
In her book The Art of Rest, one researcher conducted a thorough analysis of the top 10 activities we find most restful.
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The British economic anthropologist Jason Hickel proposes “degrowth” in the face of recession.
Pew Research Center data shows that most people think diversity improves lives in their countries.
If you think ‘particles are matter’ and ‘antiparticles are antimatter,’ think again. In this Universe, there are certain rules that have never been observed to be broken. Some of these […]
Could medical detection animals smell coronavirus?