In the pursuit of happiness, money probably trumps meaning.
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Cryptocurrency “news” is dominated by enthusiasts and haters. Surely, an intellectual discussion can be had.
Unless you have a critical mass of heavy elements when your star first forms, planets, including rocky ones, are practically impossible.
Dennis Klatt developed trailblazing text-to-speech systems before losing his own voice to cancer.
As particles travel through the Universe, there’s a speed limit to how fast they’re allowed to go. No, not the speed of light: below it.
IceCube just found an active galaxy in the nearby Universe, 47 million light-years away, through its neutrino emissions: a cosmic first.
There’s an extra source of massive “stuff” in our Universe beyond what gravitation and normal matter can explain. Could light be the answer?
When you’re a genius, how do you make ends meet?
Even though the leftover glow from the Big Bang creates a bath of radiation at only 2.725 K, some places in the Universe get even colder.
Our social instincts can lead us to adopt models of desire that might not serve our interests.
Research shows that psilocybin leads people away from materialism and toward transcendentalism. Apparently, mushrooms teach metaphysics.
Discussions of human evolution are usually backward looking, as if the greatest triumphs and challenges were in the distant past.
Empty, intergalactic space is just 2.725 K: not even three degrees above absolute zero. But the Boomerang Nebula is even colder.
And what if both parties are skilled at mirroring each other? Will it produce a stalemate?
What responsibility do social media companies like Twitter have to free speech? It depends on whether they are “landlords” or “publishers.”
One home was printed in 28 hours. Now, Alquist 3D is building 200 more.
We forget how unnatural a lot of formal education is. “Learning how to learn” requires bridging the gap between the abstract and the natural.
The divers spend their waking hours either under hundreds of feet of water on the ocean floor or squeezed into an area the size of a restaurant booth.
For some people, there is only one thing to live for. They commit their entire being to that thing. They are dangerous.
The problems that Americans face are often too complex for fact-checking alone.
The ability to differentiate your emotions might make you less likely to suffer from depression, alcoholism, and anger issues.
People admire complexity. Many attribute it to the work of superior minds, those with the skills or intelligence to wrangle challenging ideas into a workable—if not always comprehensible—whole. This esteem […]
Our temporal experience of the world is not divided into a series of neat segments, yet that’s how we talk about time.
Some animals were even assigned their own lawyers.
How do you cope when joining a team shatters your confidence? Albert Camus and Harry Stack Sullivan can help.
The Chegg cheating scandal reveals a critical need to rethink the student experience in post-COVID education.
The Big Bang was hot, dense, uniform, and filled with matter and energy. Before that? There was nothing. Here’s how that’s possible.
There’s still hope for implicit bias training, research shows.
A new study upends a long-standing theory on how the brain plans motor actions in uncertain environments.
Humans seemingly have opposing desires to fit in and to be unique. The interplay between these might drive the evolution of fads.