The transition across a quantum barrier is known as quantum tunneling, and the amount of time it takes for such a transition to occur had never been measured before. For […]
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The Avengers movies have done a marvelous job melding science and story.
Why does time flow in one direction? Why do humans perceive time so differently than it really is? Is there really a difference between the present, the past, and the future? These books explore these questions and more.
It’s true that we have a thermodynamic arrow of time, and entropy always increases. But that can’t explain what we perceive. One of the enormous conceptual ideas that came along […]
Conventional wisdom believes “screen time” disrupts mental development, but research hints at a more complicated relationship between our minds and digital technology.
Barbara J. King on animal emotions, anthropomorphism, and the future of the planet.
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It would be the ultimate method for solving our pollution or hazardous/radioactive waste problems, but we’ll never do it. Here’s why. Imagine our planet as it was for the first 4.55 […]
A new study finds such kids excel in all cognitive areas.
After his breakout performance as Breaking Bad’s Walter White — and after playing dad Hal in Malcolm in the Middle — it might seem that Bryan Cranston’s always been as […]
Scientists may have seen a way to cure a maddening symptom of hearing loss.
FieldTrip is advancing the realm of clinical psychedelic testing.
We mistakenly think a lack of productivity means employees just don’t care.
Physicists sure do give counterintuitive names to the things they find. Most of us are confounded by the idea of relativity when we first encounter it. Objects don’t just move through […]
Stanley Tucci has played a lot of different roles on movie sets, both in front of and behind the camera. As a director, though, Tucci stands in the center of […]
No one has seen an equinox this early since the 19th century. And you’d better get used to it. This year, on March 19, 2020, the equinox will occur. For a […]
There are rules absolutely forbidding it from happening. But some particles do it anyway. All the matter we know of in the Universe is made up of Standard Model particles. Photons […]
We’re putting the “care” back into “healthcare.”
Might microdosing LSD and psilocybin be a safe, effective way to treat depression and other disorders?
They experience reality differently than we do.
Chairman of JetBlue Joel Peterson considers trust, “smart” trust, a key element in a successful organization. Where there’s trust, a company is free to become a whole greater than the […]
What strategies do you use to push through a tough challenge, be it a run on a treadmill or a stressful phone call with your boss? Perhaps you remind yourself […]
A new study of thousands links right-wing authoritarian attitudes and feeling one’s life is more meaningful.
Atheism doesn’t offer much beyond non-belief, can secular humanism fill the gaps?
The nature of our quantum Universe is puzzling, counterintuitive, and testable. The results don’t lie. Although our intuition is an incredibly useful tool for navigating daily life, developed from a lifetime […]
Not all moms would travel into the African bush or drain their life savings just to help their kids realize their dreams.
You’d have to throw out a lot of known physics for this to even be a possibility. Here’s why. It’s an undeniable scientific fact that dark matter must exist in order […]
Technology holds the promise of a better future, but our footprint on the planet threatens to undo all our dreams and progress. It’s pretty easy to look at the world […]
New experiments look to the interplay between neutrons and magnetic fields to observe our universal reflection.
Philosophers and practical ethicists might gain something from considering the Overton window of political possibilities.
Templeton Prize winner Marcelo Gleiser on knowledge, the endless frontier.
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