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Those ancient Chinese philosophers earned their insights.
We still don’t know what dark matter is, but at least we now know what it’s not. When it comes to science, we often say that it only takes a single […]
Two types of thinking have a time-sharing deal going on in your brain.
A biologist-reporter investigates his fungal namesake.
Just before I turned 60, I discovered that sharing my story by drawing could be an effective way to both alleviate my symptoms and combat that stigma.
Isolation and empathy are by no means mutually exclusive.
“You will always be looking over your shoulder waiting for somebody to call you out and say, ‘You’re a fraud, you’re an idiot.’ … I still start things and basically […]
State and local governments are hiring contact tracers to contain the spread of novel coronavirus.
At just 3 solar masses, it eliminates the “mass gap.” Searching for black holes is one of the most difficult astronomical games a scientist can play. Emitting no light of their […]
It’s not a lack of motivation, intelligence, or capability. Here’s how to open a space. Over the past 20 years, the number of bachelor’s degrees awarded in physics has more than […]
In Canada and Austria, there are some signs that the young Swedish activist is already reshaping the political landscape.
Robert Whitaker discusses the long-term impact of prescription medication.
From “if-by-whiskey” to the McNamara fallacy, being able to spot logical missteps is an invaluable skill.
Forgetting them, at any step, can lead to unscientific conclusions. No one, not even the smartest among us, were competent scientists from the outset. The concept of science is simple […]
A review of Matthew Engelke’s How to Think Like an Anthropologist.
Thinking your life is worthwhile is correlated with a variety of positive outcomes.
There’s a million things we haven’t done. But just you wait. The Universe as we know it began some 13.8 billion years ago with the onset of the hot Big Bang. […]
Pandemic-inspired housing innovation will collide with techno-acceleration.
An information war is being waged.
It’s 92 billion light-years wide after just 13.8 billion years. And that’s just fine. If there’s one rule that people know about how fast things can move, it’s that there’s a […]
The stereotype of the unfeeling researcher in a lab coat just isn’t true.
A fascinating mathematical structure exists that goes well beyond our common experience. Could it revolutionize physics? Perhaps the most remarkable fact about the Universe is that every particle within it — at […]
A new study says curiosity and creativity are computational errors.
What subjects and ideas do you discuss with your friends when you see them?
Orgasms don’t always mean a sexual encounter is positive, find psychologists.
You’ve likely heard of solar energy, but what is osmotic energy?
Is the cult of youth what we really want trailing us into the afterlife?
The most massive nearby stars could be the seeds our supermassive black holes need. The problem with the Universe, as we see it today, is that we only get a snapshot […]