This isn’t America’s first rodeo with monkeypox. In 2003, the virus swept across America thanks to a shipment of exotic animals.
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Inequality should be measured in terms of the time it takes for us to earn the money to buy the things we need. And everyone is getting wealthier.
“She understood me and I understood her. I loved that pigeon.”
Music therapy might boost memory, but the benefits are small. Just in case, tell your grandparents to listen to their favorite 1960s tunes.
Einstein’s theories of relativity faced fierce opposition. One critic claimed he was attempting to subvert the scientific method.
82% of professionals say they’d take a lower-paying job to work for an organization with more ethical business practices. This is just one of the reasons to offer ethics training for employees.
The danger posed by conversational AI isn’t that it can say weird or dark things; it’s personalized manipulation for nefarious purposes.
From “Thompson’s violinist” to the “Experience Machine,” these thought experiments will throw your mind for a loop.
Drones have a lot to learn from the landing abilities of birds.
Scientists discover surviving viruses in 15,000-year-old glacier ice on the Tibetan Plateau in China.
To do more, it sometimes pays to do nothing at all.
Two aspects of memory – fast updating and long lasting – are typically considered incompatible, yet the insects combined them.
Our brains make snap moral decisions in mere seconds.
Perhaps the most remarkable fact about the Universe is simply that it, and everything in it, exists. But what’s the reason why?
We know more about the universe than what is beneath our feet. But Earth’s mantle holds subtle clues about our planet’s past.
With LEDs bringing brighter nighttime lighting than ever before, and thousands of new satellites polluting the skies, astronomy needs help.
New research suggests that there is no “typical” form of Alzheimer’s disease, as the condition can manifest in at least four different ways.
From a desert oasis to the Rocky Mountains, being filled with awe makes me a better scientist.
Unplugging only ignores the hard work of overcoming your distractions.
We should not expect aliens to look anything like us. Creatures that resemble octopuses or birds or even robots are legitimate possibilities.
Scientists agree that eons ago, a bacterium took up residence inside another cell and became its powerhouse, the mitochondrion. But there are competing theories about the birth of other organelles such as the nucleus and endoplasmic reticulum.
Dating apps have made it easier than ever to find a partner. Paradoxically, the ease of finding matches means some remain perpetually single.
The language you speak plays an important role in how you evaluate truth.
There’s a quantum limit to how precisely anything can be measured. By squeezing light, LIGO has now surpassed all previous limitations.
Because of dark energy, distant objects speed away from us faster and faster as time goes on. How long before every galaxy is out of reach?
They are expected to be cheaper to build and even more reliable than today’s nuclear plants.
A team of scientists managed to install onto a smartphone a spectrometer that’s capable of identifying specific molecules — with cheap parts you can buy online.
Headlines have blared that quasar ticking confirms that time passed more slowly in the early Universe. That’s not how any of this works.
From the Big Bang to black holes, singularities are hard to avoid. The math definitely predicts them, but are they truly, physically real?
Pandemic rumors and information overload make separating fact from fancy difficult, putting people’s health and lives at risk.