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The true course of progress is not only charted by great men and women, but also by ordinary people having conversations.
The answer is surprisingly simple, if cataclysmic.
A new medical imaging device uses technology developed by particle physicists to produce full-color, 3D images of the human body.
Virtual borders have also been subtly dividing the world
Creating more neural circuits through visual landmarking not only benefits your spatial orientation, it could keep Alzheimer’s disease at bay.
It’s not what you have, it’s what you do with it.
It was so well-motivated and compelling. But the particles never appeared. Every so often, an idea comes along in theoretical physics that’s undeniably profound. When a single idea can solve […]
A new book on the music distribution service claims it is.
China’s Chang’e 4 biosphere experiment marks a first for humankind.
Feel like traveling to another dimension? Better choose your black hole wisely.
You can be born with good genes and study hard and still not meet your potential. Your environment has a lot to do with how smart you are.
Cognitive psychologist Donald Hoffman hypothesizes we evolved to experience a collective delusion — not objective reality.
The brains of two genetically edited babies born last year in China might have enhanced memory and cognition, but that doesn’t mean the scientific community is pleased.
For billions of years, dark energy couldn’t have been detected. Now, it’s everywhere we look. When we look out at the ultra-distant Universe, billion of light-years away, we’re seeing it as […]
A tiny grain found within a meteorite in Antarctica sheds light on how the solar system itself came to be.
Eight-dimensional octonions may hold the clues to solve fundamental mysteries.
The ability to instantaneously jump from one location in space to another clearly violates the laws of physics. Or does it? There are a few rules in the Universe that seem […]
After a landslide victory, a popular comedian with no political experience becomes Ukraine’s next president. Are comedians really the best leaders?
Cosmologists propose a groundbreaking model of the universe using string theory.
Unlike much of the United States, the South has a culture of honor. While this makes Southerners more polite, it’s also something of a double-edged sword.
One often-neglected result of climate change is ocean acidification. If this process continues, we may start to see fewer fish and more jellyfish.
A consortium of scientists and engineers have proposed that the U.S. and Mexico build a series of guarded solar, wind, natural gas and desalination facilities along the entirety of the border.
A new study re-assesses multitasking.
Disagreements are inevitable — we all have different experiences that lead us to be who we are and to what we believe. Almost as inevitable are distrust, suspicion, and even […]
The Boomerang Nebula, in our galaxy, is even colder than completely empty space. Here’s how that’s possible. Imagine the coldest place you possibly can. Inside it, the particles that make […]
Ten of the most sandbagging, red-herring, and effective logical fallacies.
The war machine needs fuel, perhaps so much as to make protecting oil redundant.
From Godzilla to The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, it’s everywhere.