Ending social distancing won’t only make us sicker, but will tank the health care industry in the process. The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic continues to spread around the world. As of today, […]
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Your microbiome begins in your mouth. Why don’t we look there more often?
More than 30 essays on the subject “Why I became a Nazi” written by German women in 1934 have been lying fallow in the archives.
How do you overcome the tension between autonomy and solidarity?
A punishment is handed down for performing shocking research on human embryos.
Digitally recording historical sites could serve as insurance in the case of disaster.
Have we always had quantum fields in the Universe? Or did they emerge at some finite time? No matter how we look at the Universe — at low temperatures or ultra-high energies, from […]
Ever want to move forward but find you’re in your own way?
It isn’t just that mass and energy are equivalent and interchangeable. It tells us something fundamental about mass itself. Of all the equations that we use to describe the Universe, perhaps […]
How many potentially habitable planets are there? We sincerely don’t know. One of the most compelling scientific goals humanity has set for itself is to find extraterrestrial life: biological activity originating […]
The quest for the ultimate vacuum just got taken to the next level thanks to a new technique: the quantum squeezer. One of the most understated frontiers in all of […]
There’s more light than we can account for, and we’ve just measured it robustly for the first time. When we look out at the darkest night skies available on Earth, even […]
You might think that we live in a three dimensional Universe based on space alone. But you cannot leave time out of it. If you were asked to describe how you […]
Determining whether human nature is short-sighted when it comes to survival-necessary situations
Research has found that previously encountered information feels more “fluent.”
If we could see in three dimensions instead of two, we’d never have thought otherwise. Perhaps the most famous sight of a dying star is the Ring Nebula, discovered in […]
The new method appears to be more efficient and cheaper than current carbon capture technologies.
The campaign promise could only become law if the Labour Party wins the general election in December.
Can AI make better predictions about future crimes?
The world isn’t ending! But we are likely at the beginning of a profound transformation.
It doesn’t matter what’s popular, logical, or intuitive. What matters is what you can observe and measure. Imagine asking the biggest, most fundamental question of all: what is reality? How would […]
There are three possible ways we’ll find alien life. With all of these chances, the only question is which will come first. Given everything humanity has learned about the Universe, it […]
In science, breakthroughs don’t always begin with a ‘eureka’ moment. Sometimes, the true story is absolutely unbelievable. When it comes to our Universe’s origin story, many competing ideas once thrived. […]
Despite being raised in a screen-lit world, today’s children make and maintain friendships as well as past generations.
Even in the most exotic scenario imaginable, they still can’t remain stable in the Earth’s interior. It’s well known among scientists that if you submit even the most nonsensical paper […]
“It’s not always about agreement, more often it’s about business.”
It’s one of only five spacecraft that will exit the Solar System, and the only one we have a chance to aim at another star. Of all the spacecraft ever launched, […]
They can be signs of how people feel in their relationship – and may send an important message to potential rivals.
As we embrace green solutions, nuclear should absolutely be part of the equation. For thousands upon thousands of years, humans have been harnessing the power of nature to provide energy […]