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“We need to get our priorities straight,” Warren said.

Do you get worried or angry? Ever forget to tithe? One minister has bad news for you.

Too many entrepreneurs care more about growing their audience at all costs than improving their ability to serve all sectors of their existing audience.

The FDA calls out creators of genetically tweaked hornless bulls.

If you thought the Planck satellite just made temperature maps of the cosmic microwave background, this will astound you. The Milky Way, to human eyes, appears as simply a mix of […]

Ever smell a durian fruit? Don’t. Think of it as nature’s stinky battery.

Living 150 years sounds great… till you consider the effects on population.

Smoking is not just habit-based but is deeply entwined with emotions.

We just found the first one within 1,000 light-years of us. But there’s probably one much, much closer. For a long time, black holes were known to exist only in the […]

USGS’s ‘Unified Geologic Map of the Moon’ is the definitive blueprint of the lunar surface.

It’s not a gambit. It’s not fraud. It’s not an opinion. And it’s not biased like you think it is. Most of us, when we think about what science is, default […]

Jonathan Rauch explains why the internet is so hostile to the truth, and what we can do to change that.

Even if you remove everything you can from the Universe, some energy will still remain. Here’s what that means. Imagine, if you can, what it would mean to have a Universe […]

A new study lays out the case for the damaging effects of stress on orcas living in tanks.

Johns Hopkins University professor Susan Carnell explains the neuroscience behind eating out of boredom (and how to stop).

Remaining silent is being complicit.

Maybe you’ve heard the term “self-actualization” bandied about at a party or by an inspirational speaker? Popularized by psychologist Abraham Maslow, the theory argues that we can realize our full […]

Maybe, but that probably doesn’t mean what you think it does. Of all the unsolved puzzles in the Universe, perhaps the most confounding is the dark matter problem. If we look […]

Of all the injustices in Nobel Prize history, her 1957 Nobel snub is the most egregious. One of the biggest scientific revolutions of the 20th century was the discovery of […]

Black holes are regions of extreme gravity, but dark matter barely interacts at all. Do they play well together? Black holes are some of the most extreme objects in the […]

Debris from Pluto-sized collisions, not aliens, are streaming through the galaxy. In 2017, scientists discovered an object passing through our Solar System that was unlike anything else we had ever seen. […]

A new web startup is selling algorithmically produced nudes of non-existent women. There’s still some ethical concerns.

A black hole’s event horizon is thought of as the point of no return. But perhaps there are ways back out, after all. Black holes just might be the most extreme […]

Focusing on the present moment has some strange effects on how people estimate stretches of time.

The successor to Hubble is almost ready for launch. It’s really coming this year, too! NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, originally proposed in the 1990s, is finally slated to launch later […]

Here are 10 physics courses you can take now with some of the best experts in the world.

The newest record-setting quasar houses an enormous black hole. No one knows how. In every scientific field, we’re always on the lookout for whatever new discovery might reveal what’s currently beyond […]

“At this point our data is more valuable than oil,” Yang said. “If anyone benefits from our data it should be us.”

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