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A mind-bending physics theory may explain why we have one reality instead of many.
Until the use of prison labor is banned, many stakeholders will be incentivized to prevent felons from being rehabilitated.
The shape of our Universe has long been recognized to be flat. But that isn’t the only possibility. The Universe is expanding, and goes on for farther than even our […]
A new study challenges international life expectancies.
It’s very different from the colloquial meanings of “true-and-false” or “right-and-wrong.” In many ways, the human endeavor of science is the ultimate pursuit of truth. By asking the natural world […]
Compassion is one of several news values that determine if a story is published.
But few critics actually addressed the science on climate change.
Psychologist and author Dan Ariely understands the appeal of rational economics: If people can be expected to behave rationally, life is simple. You can predict their behavior and devise systems […]
Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy, is a programmer. When he got the idea to begin posting free online classes, he was able to get the basic infrastructure in place […]
The Pew Research Group conducted a survey on the most important life skills to several thousand Americans. Here’s what they said.
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 […]
The development of implicit biases starts at a young age and then they get reinforced over time.
The combination of charge conjugation, parity, and time-reversal symmetry is known as CPT. And it must never be broken. Ever. The ultimate goal of physics is to accurately describe, as precisely […]
It’s much more complex a question than dividing its mass by the volume of the event horizon. If you want to get a meaningful answer, you have to go deep. If […]
Wide Angle Motion Imagery (WAMI) is a surveillance game-changer. And it’s here.
She may not be ours forever.
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 […]
Some basic areas we could all use some improvement in.
It turns out these little white lies serve a purpose.
First of a 3-part series about future technologies and their role in human flourishing.
David Bienenstock has made it his mission to keep the history of cannabis alive.
A new study from Singapore found that intermittent fasting increases neurogenesis.
Some experts may worry that AI will depersonalize health care, but others see its potential to deepen relationships.
Controversial map names CEOs of 100 companies producing 71 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions.
If you’re wondering whether the blast wave or the radiation would kill us first, you’re asking the wrong question. As far as raw explosive power goes, no other cataclysm in […]