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Cooperation was the first technology.
The world has improved in mind-blowing ways.
“Ghost gear” leads to hundreds of thousands of animal deaths.
Holograms preserve all of an object’s 3D information, but on a 2D surface. Could the holographic Universe idea lead us to higher dimensions?
What if your best friend was an informant?
Which one is the funniest?
Between 30% and 50% of the US population says they believe in ghosts.
An increase in genetic regulatory elements explains how modern humans evolved bigger brains than other hominins.
Before we formed stars, atoms, elements, or even got rid of our antimatter, the Big Bang made neutrinos. And we finally found them.
Living is about staying busy.
Does donating relieve that anxiety? Or make it worse?
You don’t need to ride into the danger zone to take advantage of TOPGUN’s life and career lessons.
We got lucky with our evolutionary history.
The acceptance of fashionable nonsense is a threat to Enlightenment values and public health.
NASA is creating a planet habitability index, and Earth may not be at the top. With our current data, ranking habitability is guesswork.
When the great American tradition of the road trip meets the great Jewish tradition of the deli, we get the Great American Deli Schlep.
Tracing the origin and development of jaws — and other anatomical features that humans share — sheds some light on how we came to be.
The same brain differences that contribute to left-handedness also contribute to psychotic disorders. But there’s a bright side.
Even after a decade of hormone therapy, trans women are stronger and faster than cis women.
Empty space itself, the quantum vacuum, could be in either a true, stable state or a false, unstable state. Our fate depends on the answer.
Our society mostly emphasizes developing logical, procedural thinking skills, but this isn’t the only way to come up with great ideas.
Over the past 50 years, 27 leap seconds have been added to our time.
All nations have founding myths, but none are quite like Russia’s.
Many animals engage in “zoopharmacognosy” or self-medication.
It might seem petty and shallow to get upset over a bad gift, but there’s often a deeper reason behind the feeling.
With its first view of a protoplanetary disk around a newly forming star, the JWST reveals how alone individual stellar systems truly are.
