The Universe has asymmetries, but that’s a good thing. Imperfections are essential for the existence of stars and even life itself.
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Implicit bias may be outside your conscious control, but that doesn’t mean change is.
The U.S. has the world’s largest debt in absolute terms, but Japan’s is the largest when measured in terms of its debt-to-GDP ratio.
The pulse took just 35 hours to cover the whole world.
The ANITA experiment found cosmic rays shooting out of Antarctica. One interpretation claims “parallel Universes,” but is that right?
Researchers have created a method to help workers collaborate with artificial intelligence systems.
When Saint Ambrose of Milan was venerated, his life became public property, its meaning expanding with the unique interpretations of each new generation.
Whenever you’re surprised, there’s a good chance that your brain is busy tweaking your memories.
With this unique opportunity to create a totally new world, why does the metaverse already feature such old-world concepts?
Why power generated through nuclear fusion will be the future, but not the present, solution to humanity’s energy needs.
As the demonstrations grew, so did the internet service disruptions.
Should we take people’s drunken behavior as evidence of their true character?
Many first-hand accounts from the golden age of piracy were grossly embellished, meaning it’s extremely difficult to separate Blackbeard the legend from Edward Thatch the person.
As viewed by the MeerKAT telescope, this radio view of the Milky Way blows away every other way we’ve ever seen our home galaxy.
Altos Labs is an ambitious new anti-aging company with billions of dollars to back it up.
Space planes could radically lower the cost of spaceflight.
There really might be extraterrestrials out there, attempting to make contact. Here’s how science, not fiction, is attempting to find them.
Einstein’s theories of relativity faced fierce opposition. One critic claimed he was attempting to subvert the scientific method.
One hundred years ago, a Ukrainian flag flew over Vladivostok and other parts of the “Russian” Far East.
For a long time, important events could only be visualized retroactively through paintings. Photography allowed us to capture history as — or sometimes even before — it happened.
Only talk about the weather?
A new analysis of an ancient hominin fossil sheds light on the “Out of Africa” dispersal events that occurred more than one million years ago.
The more social behaviors a voice-user interface exhibits, the more likely people are to trust it, engage with it, and consider it to be competent.
We forget how unnatural a lot of formal education is. “Learning how to learn” requires bridging the gap between the abstract and the natural.
With launch costs dropping and enormous numbers of new satellites filling the sky, can’t we just do it all from space?
In scientific theories, the Multiverse appears as a bug rather than as a feature. We should squash it.
Scientists at UCLA and Penn argue that malfunctioning fat, not necessarily too much of it, is what makes people metabolically unhealthy.
According to Sigmund Freud, our revulsion at taboos is an attempt to suppress a part of us that actually wants to do them.
Risqué or just risky?
There are ~400 billion stars in the Milky Way, and ~2 trillion galaxies in the visible Universe. But what if we aren’t typical?