Barbara Tversky takes an outdated idea to task in Mind in Motion.
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It’s an asteroid, it’s a comet, it’s actually a spacecraft?
The Russian robot named “Boris”, promoted as hi-tech by state tv, was revealed to be an actor.
It’s a record magnetic field, but… yeah. That didn’t last long.
Books that will sharpen the youthful mind.
If you don’t want to know anything about your death, consider this your spoiler warning.
If parallel Universes or the multiverse are real, we might someday encounter a visitor who hails from another one. Here’s what to do. There are a lot of things that are […]
The stunning Super-Kamiokande is hidden beneath a mountain in Japan to detect neutrinos shot from supernovas.
With thousands of discovered planets around stars beyond our own Sun, why haven’t we found the next Earth? Over the past 30 years, astronomers have gone from zero known extra-solar planets […]
About twice the size of Earth, 503b orbits its own star every six days.
Glenn Albrecht has ideas about how to cope with the effects of a changing world: Invent a new language.
Also known as the “Halloween Comet,” a 2,000-foot-wide asteroid is expected to pass Earth on November 11.
Notes from the Fog author Ben Marcus on Elon Musk, the weird existential joys of the reality TV show Castaways, and whether we will eat in the future.
From billions of miles away, a faint, single pixel shows us how precious and alone Earth truly is. There are people alive today who can remember a time where no human-made […]
Psychologists figure out how men and women view engagement rings in light of how hot they think they are.
A new study takes a fresh look at the mechanics of forming habits.
A new method of growing mini-brains produces some startling results.
It’s rare but spectacular when the Moon passes in front of another planet. Here’s how to see it. From our perspective on Earth, the night sky appears virtually unchanged with the […]
Now that we’ve seen our first one, we want more, and we want them better. Here’s how to get there. To resolve any astronomical object, you must achieve resolutions superior to […]
Without a healthy mind, tackling life’s challenges becomes exponentially more difficult.
If the Breakthrough Starshot initiative, promoted by Stephen Hawking, works exactly as planned, it could lead to disaster. Imagine yourself on a world not so different from Earth, orbiting a […]
North Korea’s Great Leader would rather not fly for his second summit with Trump – but the trip is also a political message to China.
A team at MIT has discovered that human brains are capable of “seeing” ghost images hidden between groups of patterns captured by single-pixel cameras.
Lasers solve the mystery of the missing quill.
Shortly after the Big Bang, the Universe became completely dark. The first stars, when they ignited, changed everything. For perhaps 100 million years, the Universe was devoid of stars. The […]
Several things in nature go faster than the speed of light, without challenging general relativity.
Three great things all align this August, making the Perseids a can’t-miss show. Here’s how to take advantage. When it comes to meteor showers, we have these dazzling pictures in […]
The latest advances in genetics and neuroscience suggest that mind control may soon be a reality. But how will we use this power once we get it?