Finding alien technology on the seafloor would be truly incredible. This extraordinary claim, however, is debunked by the actual evidence.
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In a world without “bullshit jobs,” we would have more hours available to us to learn new skills and to unleash our creative side.
If computers can beat us at chess, maybe they could beat us at math, too.
This year marks 2,000 years since the birth of the Roman author of the first natural encyclopedia.
Recasting the iconic Carrington Event as just one of many superstorms in Earth’s past, scientists reveal the potential for even more massive eruptions from the sun.
Sex, it turns out, isn’t as easy or simple as popular culture might lead us to believe.
From “shell shock” to “combat fatigue,” the wars of the past century have violently illuminated the power trauma can wield over the mind and body.
Brands manufacture meaning through consensus; people must strive to create their own.
Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York is the kind of film that makes you laugh and cry at the same time.
The Chegg cheating scandal reveals a critical need to rethink the student experience in post-COVID education.
Ingenuity is remarkable. But these 5 exploration ideas are revolutionary. Telescopes are our initial tools for revealing and studying foreign worlds. Hubble images of Mars, particularly around the regions with […]
Psychologists point to specific reasons that make it hard for us to admit our wrongdoing.
The number of PhDs has been exceeding the available academic positions since as early as the mid-1990s.
The scientists, not the fossil fuel industry, were right all along. Back in 1990, the world’s top climate scientists convened to put together a report on the state of Earth’s climate. […]
When you measure not just light, but light’s polarization, you learn so much more. It’s been over 100 years since the first solution for a black hole was discovered in General […]
Spirals, ellipticals, and irregulars are all more common than ring galaxies. At last, we know how these ultra-rare objects are made.
For some reason, the charges on the electron and proton are equal and opposite, and their numbers are equal, too. But why?
Neptune holds records in our Solar System, but the Universe gets even faster. Here on Earth, extreme weather events can cause dramatic wind speed spikes. When hurricanes are at their most […]
We bring multifaceted selves to our interactions, and in these interactions co-create each other again and again.
For the ancients, hospitality was an inviolable law enforced by gods and priests and anyone else with the power to make you pay dearly for mistreating a stranger.
We’ve already observed three cases where it’s happened. When you look at an object in space, it’s pretty easy to tell if it’s a star or a planet. Stars are […]
Walter Pitts rose from the streets to MIT, but couldn’t escape himself.
No matter how your year went, Hubble’s views of the Universe never disappoint. Year after year, Hubble’s telescopic views are unparalleled. Saturn, its rings, and 5 of its moons are […]
Famished, not famous: retrace Orwell’s hunger days, when he was one of the city’s legion of poor foreigners.
Hubble’s still going strong after 31+ years. James Webb will never make it that long. Every decision that’s made — in both astronomy and in life — comes with its own set of pros and […]
Americans lose an estimated 321 million work days every year due to anxiety and depression.
In 1990, we only knew of the planets in our own Solar System. Today, the exoplanet count is more than 5000. Here’s what we’ve learned.
With sodium-sensitive eyes, we’d see it every new Moon. With no detectable gases, the Moon appears to be atmosphere-free. The Moon as seen from a view above the majority of Earth’s […]
We can describe what we see happening, but we don’t understand why. Despite our vast cosmic knowledge, enormous unknowns remain. The quantum fluctuations inherent to space, stretched across the Universe […]
Smallpox was nothing new in 1721.