Can quantum computers do things that standard, classical computers can’t? No. But if they can calculate faster, that’s quantum supremacy.
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New ideas inevitably face opposition. A new book called “The Human Element” argues that overcoming opposition requires understanding the concepts of “Fuel” and “Friction.”
Preferring “bases not places,” the U.S. does not really resemble the empires of old.
With 1550 distinct type Ia supernovae measured across ~10 billion years of cosmic time, the Pantheon+ data set reveals our Universe.
We pretend as if economic sanctions are a peaceful way to coerce others into behaving. In reality, they are a potent tool of modern warfare.
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Bitcoin is often derided as volatile, but a new report suggests there is a method to the madness.
Should we take people’s drunken behavior as evidence of their true character?
Is the physical universe independent from us, or is it created by our minds, as suggested by scientist Robert Lanza?
There are many theories of gravity out there, and many interpretations of wide binary star data. What have we really learned from it all?
In his new book, “The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power,” Jacob Helberg outlines the brewing cyberwar between Western democracies and autocracies like China and Russia.
The highest-energy particles could be a sign of new, unexpected physics. But the simplest, most mundane explanation is particularly iron-ic.
One million year old mammoth DNA more than doubles the previous record and suggests that even older genomes could be found.
Yes, “the laws of physics break down” at singularities. But something really weird must have happened for black holes to not possess them.
Elephants mourn the dead, dolphins give names to each other, and insects can recognize faces. The animal world is much smarter than we think.
This representation of the Bamum kingdom is a rare example of early 20th-century indigenous African cartography.
We cannot deduce laws about a higher level of complexity by starting with a lower level of complexity. Here, reductionism meets a brick wall.
What creates our private, inner universes is still a mystery.
Science has come a long way since Mary Shelley penned “Frankenstein.” But we still grapple with the same questions.
Dunbar’s number is a popular estimate for the maximum size of social groups. But new research suggests that it’s a fictitious number based on flimsy data and bad theory.
Each year in mid-August, Earth plows through the debris stream of an enormous comet, creating the Perseids. 2023’s show will be magnificent!
Without a solid understanding of the factors that affect the transfer of learning, the gulf between training and job performance is difficult to bridge.
Think therapy is self-centered? Think again.
Theoretical physicist Leonard Mlodinow offers three strategies for relaxing your cognitive filters to give your brilliant ideas time to shine in the spotlight of the conscious mind.
You can only create or destroy matter by creating or destroying equal amounts of antimatter. So how did we become a matter-rich Universe?
An optical telescope with a massive 20-foot (6-meter) mirror has an eye-popping price tag of $11 billion.
There are dozens of learning and development conferences to choose from each year. Here are 10 of the most popular, along with what makes them unique.
And debate over it started soon after.
The neoliberal call for more ‘choice’, seems hard to resist.
The simulation gave researchers some of the first concrete data linking climate change to human evolution and speciation.