In 1903, a Vermont doctor bet $50 that he could cross America by car. It took him 63 days, $8,000, and 600 gallons of gas.
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This map of Hutterite colonies in North America says something about religion and evolution — and more precisely, speciation.
Neuroscientist and author Bobby Azarian explores the idea that the Universe is a self-organizing system that evolves and learns.
Reading between the lines of Dorothy’s adventure to the Emerald City.
People who visit Florence seem strangely susceptible to Stendhal syndrome, which is blamed on an overwhelming sense of awe.
A 5,300-year-old mummy teaches us the global history of tattoos.
In special relativity, the statement that two events happened at the same time is meaningless.
Researchers have discovered 830-million-year-old microbes living inside a salt rock on Earth. Could the same occur on Mars?
The psychology of alien contact largely revolves around the concept of “otherness.” We need to learn to be comfortable around strange things.
A computer that could decidedly pass Alan Turing’s test would represent a major step toward artificial general intelligence.
Fish are surprisingly good in numbers tests — a skill that sometimes makes the difference between life and death.
If you put very fine black powder powder in a confined space it explodes in a cloud of heat, gas and noise.
The same (former) NASA engineer who previously claimed to violate Newton’s laws is now claiming to have made a warp bubble. He didn’t.
Science and the humanities have been antagonistic for too long. Many of the big questions of our time require them to work closer than ever.
Man does not live by measurement alone.
Nearly 200 orbital launches are scheduled for 2022.
The Big Bang was hot, dense, uniform, and filled with matter and energy. Before that? There was nothing. Here’s how that’s possible.
This is a perversion of justice.
Is history decided by discernible laws or does it unfold based on random, unpredictable occurrences?
Venus Life Finder could launch as early as 2023.
It’s not about particle-antiparticle pairs falling into or escaping from a black hole. A deeper explanation alters our view of reality.
The next solar eclipse to occur over heavily populated areas is on April 8, 2024. For a spectacular show; here’s where the best views are!
Scientists use tripping rats to show that LSD disrupts communication between two key brain regions.
At 35 light-years away, it’s also the 2nd coolest, 2nd widest planet ever found. Despite discovering more than 4000 exoplanets, most remain obscure. Although more than 4,000 confirmed exoplanets are known, […]
Scientists have been chasing the dream of harnessing the reactions that power the Sun since the dawn of the atomic era. Interest, and investment, in the carbon-free energy source is heating up.
For generations, physicists have been searching for a quantum theory of gravity. But what if gravity isn’t actually quantum at all?
Here’s why mega-eruptions like the ones that covered North America in ash are the least of your worries.
Pando is a stand of aspen in Utah that is 14,000 years old and weighs 12 million pounds. Humans threaten to end its long reign.
Why does Seattle continue to be a place that nurtures the development of breakthrough technologies but not Minneapolis, Memphis, or Minsk?
In ancient Greece, the Olympics were never solely about the athletes themselves.