The Universe is an amazing place. Under the incredible, infrared gaze of JWST, it’s coming into focus better than ever before.
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The aging brain is networked differently.
One book will gather all topics on the search for life in the Cosmos.
Many planets will eventually be devoured by their parent star. For the first time, we caught a star in the act, eating its innermost planet!
A vitamin that makes your body repellent to mosquitos sounds too good to be true, because it is.
The amazing life of “Gudrid the Far-Traveled” was unjustly overshadowed by her in-laws, Erik the Red and Leif Erikson.
We were not born to stagnate — the point of life (and work) is to go somewhere.
All biological systems are wildly disordered. Yet somehow, that disorder enables plant photosynthesis to be nearly 100% efficient.
Voyager 2 flew past Uranus in 1986, finding a bland, featureless world. Now, in 2023, JWST’s sights are similar. There’s a reason for that.
If the evolution of the Universe is a movie, what happens when we rewind it all the way backward?
The polymath used science to elevate his art.
Numerous videos online show that squid undergo a dramatic color-changing effect after being stunned or killed.
Don’t argue with science. Just do it.
Chloé Valdary — founder of Theory of Enchantment — explores two essential practices for generating the team “magic” that drove Apple under Steve Jobs.
Even if a leading theory of consciousness is wrong, it can still be useful to science.
Everything acts like a wave while it propagates, but behaves like a particle whenever it interacts. The origins of this duality go way back.
Combining years of neurological research and mindfulness techniques, Dr. Heather Berlin helps us better understand how the body’s most complex organ can easily be misled into negative thinking – and how we can stop that from happening.
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To protect yourself, you need an antifungal rather than an amulet.
Evil is easy to identify and fight against; not so with stupidity.
The “Clovis First” hypothesis for human settlement of North and South America has just been debunked. Where do we go from here?
The pattern 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, etc., is the Fibonacci sequence. It shows up all over nature. But what’s the full explanation behind it?
Science cannot help us understand or describe first-person experience. Zen koans are a powerful form for helping us reach that description.
Can targeted interventions save Americans?
Hybrid animals emerge when two different species from the same family reproduce. For many years, the kunga’s lineage was just another genetic mystery.
Though he renounced philosophy, Stephen Hawking’s final theory of the universe redraws the basic foundations of cosmology.
Unless you have a critical mass of heavy elements when your star first forms, planets, including rocky ones, are practically impossible.
Despite their brief history, computers and AI have fundamentally changed what we see, what we know, and what we do.
Now that the DSM lists severe hoarding as a disorder apart from OCD, psychologists are asking what explains its prevalence.
New research shows that having an attitude of gratitude is key to healthy relationships, and it can virally impact society.
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Our state of extreme social interconnectedness has rapidly accelerated the rollercoaster pace at which societal confidence may collapse.