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If used improperly, the metaverse could be more divisive than social media and an insidious threat to society and even reality itself.
In each of our minds, we draw a demarcation line between beliefs that are reasonable and those that are nonsense. Where do you draw your line?
Don’t argue with science. Just do it.
Debate is a verbal sport with winners and losers. As such, it is less about the truth and more about who looks and sounds the best.
If the metaverse is money, then companies will certainly want to play, too.
The majority of the matter in our Universe isn’t made of any of the particles in the Standard Model. Could the axion save the day?
For some reason, when we talk about the age of stars, galaxies, and the Universe, we use “years” to measure time. Can we do better?
Business leaders know they must prepare for technological upheavals in the years ahead. But keeping up-to-date on new technologies—to say nothing of understanding their complexities and forecasting those shifts—is an […]
Harnessing the power of emotional intelligence in the workplace can improve both employee and operational performance.
The number of people with whom we interact is highest around 40, but then things change substantially after that.
If Rome was not built in a day, why do you think you can be?
If it wasn’t a singularity, how small could it have been? Today, when you look out in any direction as far as the laws of physics allow us to see, the […]
Just 13.8 billion years after the hot Big Bang, we can see 46.1 billion light-years away in all directions. Doesn’t that violate…something?
Think you can hide your feelings pretty easily?
Look out at a distant object, and you’re not seeing it as it is today. It’s size, brightness, and actual distance are all different.
Scientific pluralism is the notion that some questions must be approached from many angles. How can we integrate these scientific models?
The so-called “court painter of Silicon Valley” was shaped by her youth in communist Poland but looks forward to a future ruled by celebrity robots.
If everyone just showed up to their appointments, $150 billion of waste could be averted.
Bears, chimps, or humans? A track of five poorly preserved footsteps at Laetoli has puzzled paleontologists for decades. Now, a research paper from Nature claims to have solved the mystery.
We can do so much more, so much faster, with the same data. When you think about how astronomy works, you probably think about observers pointing telescopes at objects, collecting data […]
SpinLaunch will cleverly attempt to reach space with minimal rocket fuel. But will physics prevent a full-scale version from succeeding?
When we look out at the Universe, even with Hubble, we’re only seeing the closest, biggest, brightest galaxies. Here’s where the rest are.
Forget about the terawatt lasers we’re making on Earth. This natural one is thousands of times more powerful than the Sun.
Diversity training is easy to get wrong. Here’s how to build an effective program.
Automation technologies manufacture goods or provide labor with minimal human intervention. They can trace their origins as far back as the 16th century—and arguably further—but didn’t take off until the […]
Great genius is not born of lightning bolt-like moments of inspiration. In reality, perseverance plays the biggest role.
From forecasting stock prices to diagnosing disease, Swarm AI enables better group decisions.
The ten greatest ideas in science form the bedrock of modern biology, chemistry, and physics. Everyone should be familiar with them.
Blended learning reflects how people learn and develop naturally every day. Here’s how to put it into practice.