It’s one of cosmology’s biggest unsolved mysteries. The strongest argument against it may have just evaporated. The ultimate goal of cosmology contains the greatest ambition of any scientific field: to […]
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Scientists find common chemicals can negatively impact pregnant women.
The achievement is an important milestone in quantum computing, Google’s scientists said.
How do you say “spiel”? Whether you say “shpeel” or “speel” may have to do with how you vote.
Adult recess and other apparently ridiculous activities may be one of the best ways to feel, work, and be better.
What do companies like Hilton, Salesforce, and Wegman’s Food Markets have in common? First, they all have some of the happiest employees in their industries. These three companies made the […]
Traveling interstellar distances in human lifetimes is an amazing dream, but it won’t ever be achieved like this. For centuries, ever since we realized that every star we can see in […]
The view from way out there really puts things in perspective.
Philosopher Nick Bostrom’s “singleton hypothesis” predicts the future of human societies.
To prevent torturous experiments on organoids, some are calling for clearer definitions of consciousness.
In Talking to Strangers, Malcolm Gladwell discusses the concept of coupling.
As the American loneliness epidemic reaches alarming new heights, one artist theorizes on what connection might look like in the future.
Researchers evaluated the best and worst ways to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere in a recent report.
Simply getting into grad school isn’t enough. The answers to these three questions can make all the difference. It’s time. You’ve done all your research into schools, completed your undergraduate […]
The team seems to have found a way to extend animal lifespan without genetic modification.
We should care about constitutional rights for all, says lawyer and religious freedom scholar Asma T. Uddin. If they are denied for some, history demonstrates how they may be at risk for us all.
Scientists from John Hopkins find a material for quantum computing.
When we look at some of the companies with notoriously bad customer service, like Comcast, Bank of America, or United Airlines, it could be tempting to say that good customer […]
In the mid-20th century, ‘physical cosmology’ was considered an oxymoronic joke. Today, it’s Nobel-winning science. Imagine you wanted to know everything you could about the Universe. You’d want to find […]
The results have startling implications about the evolution of psychopathy in humans.
According to recent papers by Zucman, and his colleague Emmanuel Saez, one should be implemented.
Could this be the beginning of the end of insulin injections?
If you think that the Moon is only good for reflecting sunlight, you’ve got another think coming. To human eyes, the Moon is the second brightest visible object, trailing only the […]
Orgasms don’t always mean a sexual encounter is positive, find psychologists.
When adults are challenged to behave like adults, by a child, they can go in one of two directions.
Though what constitutes “getting old” for women in America has been a moving target throughout US history, it has rarely been a picnic. But our history’s also full of women who have raised hell and pushed back in a hundred different ways against the cultural and literal corsets America keeps trying to stuff them into.
It’s much more complex a question than dividing its mass by the volume of the event horizon. If you want to get a meaningful answer, you have to go deep. If […]
“On the spectrum from worry to action, parents can choose to act,” a new report states.
A harrowing new report by the CDC should serve as a wake-up call.