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While other factors exist, sexual prowess appears to have helped determine the role of Protoceratops frills.
States set their own voting laws, so where does this make voting easiest?
A new study at UPenn found that effective learning includes mistakes—just not too many.
New studies show that some people can hear and respond to questions while dreaming.
The experience of life flashing before one’s eyes has been reported for well over a century, but where’s the science behind it?
Modern crops have been optimized for a lot of things, but not for climate change.
The fruits of long-term thinking will reveal themselves in five or ten or 30 years, when you’ve created the future you’ve always wanted.
Controversial physics theory says reality around us behaves like a computer neural network.
A black woman most have never heard of made GPS possible. Over the span of a single lifetime, the world has changed in ways that would have been virtually unimaginable […]
Surrounding Earth is a powerful magnetic field created by swirling liquid iron in the planet’s core. Earth’s magnetic field may be nearly as old as the Earth itself – and […]
Machine learning is a powerful and imperfect tool that should not go unmonitored.
Famished, not famous: retrace Orwell’s hunger days, when he was one of the city’s legion of poor foreigners.
Our brains did not evolve to shop on Amazon.
A new study shows our planet is much closer to the supermassive black hole at the galaxy’s center than previously estimated.
There’s a flowchart if you aren’t sure. It’s a situation that comes up all too frequently: an expert in their field publicly states a conclusion that is thoroughly accepted by the […]
A large study shows changes in the brain scans of lonely people in the area involved in imagination, memory, and daydreaming.
Many of the most popular apps are about self-improvement.
Lake Baikal holds nearly one-fourth of Earth’s fresh surface water and is the most scientifically interesting lake on our planet.
Universities claim to prepare students for the world. How many actually do it?
Ignoring a scientific truth doesn’t change it, even when the consequences are deadly. “If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you do it, too?” Many of us, as children, […]
The closest star system to Earth, just over 4 light-years away, has three stars and at least one Earth-sized planet. Is it time to go there?
The distracting nature of modern media is having a terrible effect on what we learn.
In 1990, we only knew of the planets in our own Solar System. Today, the exoplanet count is more than 5000. Here’s what we’ve learned.
Even physicists sometimes fall for these. For centuries, the laws of physics seemed completely deterministic. If you knew where every particle was, how fast it was moving, and what the forces […]
Society-changing ideas form through a three-stage process, argues author Michael Bhaskar.
If it wasn’t a singularity, how small could it have been? Today, when you look out in any direction as far as the laws of physics allow us to see, the […]
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 […]
As Russia’s youth welcomed a new era of capitalism in the 1990s, their parents and grandparents clung to fleeting memories of Soviet life.
Yes, the Big Bang is real, but what about what came before? If you ask anyone about the origin of some phenomenon that we’ve observed, they’ll usually default to the same […]