Elegance, beauty, and mathematical precision makes for a compelling story and an exquisite model. But it doesn’t make it right. Scientific theories, at their best, are simple, straightforward, full of predictive […]
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We should stop “celebrating” Valentines Day in elementary-school classrooms.
What if entanglement also occurs across time? Is there such a thing as temporal nonlocality?
Dodge Ram has drawn the ire of social media after using audio clips of a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speech in a commercial that ran during Super Bowl LII.
Have you been feeling like democracy is in trouble lately? According to this report, you’re right.
If you blinked—or if you were in the wrong market—you might have missed a commercial for Scientology during the Super Bowl. You probably also missed the Twitter pushback.
Plus, how the mycelium network’s destruction could, physically, actually end life in the Universe. Imagine taking a seemingly impossible journey: traveling to another Universe on a network of biological spores […]
Comments are the lifeblood of internet discussion. Here’s some of the best one from this week. Did you make the cut?
The answer is a resounding yes—but not if it’s loaded with sugar and milk products.
The first medicinal marijuana patient in Texas uses it to treat severe epilepsy. And although 10 companies are allowed to grow marijuana within Texas state borders, the substance itself is still illegal.
The internet and social media have made persuasive appeals more powerful than ever before.
A sea region has become the top place for maritime accidents, accounting for almost half the shipping disasters in the world.
A game designer creates games that can change attitudes and behaviors.
The bacteria C. metallidurans is able to take trace amounts of gold and copper and turn it into teeny tiny gold nuggets a few nanometers in size.
Anxiety disorders are common. Yet, many find current treatments methods only partially effective.
There are lots of properties inherent to particles, and while everyone has an antiparticle, not everyone is matter or antimatter. For every particle of matter that’s known to exist in […]
Citizen scientists are advancing scientific knowledge.
Pictures of the secretive and extremely high-powered weapon have appeared on Chinese social media.
How does music influence behavior?
A slice of pizza might just be a better choice than breakfast cereal when you get up in the morning. Cheers!
Can’t find meaning in your life? A new study has the next best thing.
A new technology hopes to provide customers with “human surrogates” who strap screens to their faces so they can interact with the world on customers’ behalf.
Computer control in the form of AI and brain-computer interfaces is being introduced to the art of composing.
In her book, Rise of the Necrofauna, Britt Wray reports on the ethics and science behind de-extinction.
If everything goes right, astronomy will take a magnificent leap into the future. But here’s what needs to happen first. Back in 2000, NASA held their decadal survey, choosing what would […]
“Buddhist psychology and Western psychotherapy both hold out hope for a more flexible ego, one that does not pit the individual against everyone else in a futile attempt to gain total surety.”
There’s grave concern over one particularly vulnerable group in the city.
People get angry for all sorts of reasons, from the trivial ones (someone cut me off on the highway) to the really serious ones (people keep dying in Syria and […]
The virtual reality that’s coming is like nothing we’ve ever experienced. Now’s the time to decide what it’s good for.
Singer-songwriter Ryan O’Neal composes the songs of the cosmos.