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Three of our dimensions are spatial and one is temporal, but could there be more? From any point in space, you are free to move in any direction you choose. No […]
Searching for dark matter, the XENON collaboration found absolutely nothing out of the ordinary. Here’s why that’s an extraordinary feat.
The first personality tests revolved around assessing people’s reactions to ambiguous and often unsettling images. Today, the gold standard is a barrage of questions.
We don’t know with 100% certainty where SARS-CoV-2 first came from or how it first infected humans. But not all options are equally likely.
Previously, only the brightest and most active galaxies could pierce the obscuring wall of cosmic dust. At last, normal galaxies break through.
We’ve almost got the entire story. James Webb will put the last piece into place. In all of science, there are really only two ways that something can be “known” to […]
Will nefarious players use social media to sway public opinion again this November?
User-driven sites lead to user-based bias.
The last 70 years have taken us farther than the previous 70,000. But can we accomplish more than creating a record saying, “We were here?”
What makes something a hit or a flop? Sit and ponder that one, and you’ll find it’s a stumper. At first, the answer seems obvious: popularity. That’s not quite right […]
Society treats teenagers as if they’re a problem to be solved, but the truth is that we have to prepare them to solve our problems. It’s time that we change the narrative.
Many still cling to the idea that we live in a deterministic Universe, despite the nature of quantum physics. Now, the “least spooky” interpretation no longer works.
Surprising as it may seem, we are all very good at denial. Negation, however, is a different phenomena.
Your breathing rhythm influences a wide range of behaviors, cognition, and emotion.
No. No no no. Just… no. The JWST has truly blown our scientific minds, but it’s a pure crackpot idea that the Big Bang is now disproven.
Sharks fear killer whales. How does this impact the ecosystems they share?
We have been rejecting science for far too long. We all need to embrace it. For as long as human civilization has existed, those societies that have embraced science have had […]
The decades-long conflict is best understood not through secondhand accounts of historians, but the primary accounts of people who actually experienced it.
A new study explores how the brain encodes different scents — a topic which scientists know relatively little about, compared to our other senses.
Even the ones hunting for aliens aren’t excited. Here’s the reason why. In this world, there are very few issues more polarizing than the notion of aliens. For as long as […]
Circle spoofing is an advanced form of GPS manipulation – but nobody knows exactly how, or why.
Political partisanship might be a treatable condition.
Leap years will only get us through the next few thousand years before we have to fix it. With every year that passes, we assume that two separate things will both […]
“Should they strike, each of them has an energy at impact equal to all of the nuclear weapons on Earth combined.”
Jains believe that karma weighs the soul down. This can be overcome through extreme asceticism, in which one slowly withdraws from life.
Did the Milky Way form by slowly accreting matter or by devouring its neighboring galaxies? At last, we’re uncovering our own history.
Is there actually anything deserving of the term AI?
A new “common-sense” approach to computer vision enables artificial intelligence that interprets scenes more accurately than other systems do.
We know it couldn’t have began from a singularity. So how small could it have been at the absolute minimum?