Vladimir Putin adores Fyodor Dostoevsky. A close reading of the legendary author’s texts reveals the feeling might have been mutual.
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Forget about the terawatt lasers we’re making on Earth. This natural one is thousands of times more powerful than the Sun.
If computers can beat us at chess, maybe they could beat us at math, too.
A Stanford study explores the effect of multitasking on memory in young adults.
The way to understand the earliest moments of creation is to recreate those conditions and study them. Why would we stop now?
More people are looking up panic and anxiety attacks in quarantine.
Researchers discover strange behavior in magnetars, ultra-powerful magnetic stars.
Truth might be hard to find, but we can take steps to eliminate common cognitive biases.
The power of play: our forgotten lifehack.
Popular diets view health as a calorie-crunching equation while excluding a critical variable: mental wellness.
Cryptocurrencies are digital currencies that use online ledgers, called blockchains, to record transactions. These blockchains are decentralized, meaning the permanent record is not stored in one location but exists on […]
A school lesson leads to more precise measurements of the extinct megalodon shark, one of the largest fish ever.
Journalists, doctors, and others you should know.
Light-emitting tattoos could indicate dehydration in athletes or health conditions in hospital patients.
In some countries, people want more freedom of speech. In others, they feel that there is too much.
Researchers say that moral self-licensing occurs “because good deeds make people feel secure in their moral self-regard.”
After years of analysis, the Event Horizon Telescope team has finally revealed what the Milky Way’s central black hole looks like.
‘Battlefield maps’ show continent under attack from hostile invaders.
A new study suggests that private prisons hold prisoners for a longer period of time, wasting the cost savings that private prisons are supposed to provide over public ones.
The world’s 10 most affected countries are spending up to 59% of their GDP on the effects of violence.
Many contrarians dispute that cosmic inflation occurred. The evidence says otherwise.
Our program lowers reincarceration rates by 44 percent.
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 […]
A new government report describes 144 sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena.
Even with six months’ notice, we can’t stop an incoming asteroid.
A global survey shows the majority of countries favor Android over iPhone.
Despite the enormous flood of recent reports, there’s no good evidence for a lab leak. At the very end of 2019, a new disease began to emerge in humans: COVID-19. Originally […]
Music is often labelled a “universal language,” and according to the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, there is a good reason for that.
The Field Medal was created to elevate promising mathematicians from underrepresented demographics. But has it followed through on that goal?
Starling flocks, schools of fish, and clouds of insects all agree.