Our most common fears of the “other” extend even into outer space. Here’s why those fears are baseless. “Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without […]
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The Three-Body Problem series lays out a powerful case for why we should stop looking for aliens, and solves the Fermi paradox.
A piece of legislation to address the problem is getting widespread support. Yet, it’s stalled.
Hitler is commonly thought to have been an atheist, a claim that’s often used in debates about the perils of atheistic belief on a mass scale. But was he?
It’s always been our brains.
The FDA approves the first “living drug” cell therapy for childhood leukemia.
Treating the theological and the political as warring forces stops us from looking at the more surprising ways that they interact and inform each other.
Social citizenship is both a feeling of belonging and a definable set of commitments and obligations associated with living in a place; it is not second-class national citizenship.
There are many people who preach the supposed benefits of psychedelics, but none do it as well, nor as reliably, as these philosophers and scientists.
Pocket-sized therapies, like counseling apps, are praised as a timely solution to the budgetary pressures and long waiting lists of overstretched mental health services. But do they work?
For the first time, the gravitational wave sky and the astronomical sky might be coming together. It’s a new era, at long last. “Presently thought to be the most powerful explosions […]
Did you experience totality? I did, for the first time. And it was, even as a well-prepared scientist, beyond anything I expected. “All that is nowAll that is goneAll that’s […]
A new podcast: a first-person account, by a scientist, of what it was like to live and experience totality for the first time. “I sometimes ask people, ‘Can you be aware […]
They’re 3 billion light years away, but their collision can lead to answers to really big questions.
Sweating is your body’s way of regulating internal temperature. It’s not a cleansing program.
Does happiness require a rebellion against evolution?
Science gone horribly wrong. This infographic presents inventors where wiped out by their own creations.
Hidden genes are at play in many species of birds and one desert-bound gerbil.
Australian scientists discover how complex life first appeared on Earth – one of the “greatest mysteries of science”.
Every business has goals—whether they’re as simple as “sell more” or as sophisticated as “apply design thinking to business processes to increase overall efficiency and reduce costs by X%.”
A new study shows that people who avoid negative emotion tend to be worse off psychologically, while those who accept bad feelings report higher well-being.
What if your car was an extension of yourself? Neuroscience, art, and engineering combine to give us a glimpse of that future.
A Duke University study that found over 40 percent of our actions aren’t actually decisions, but habits. Here’s how to build good ones.
From its symbolism within the Seven Kingdoms, to its political allegory for all of us beyond it, the season seven finale is an epic set-up for the final showdown.
Want to be hotter? Add more mass. Want to go even hotter than that? Lose almost all of it. “A candidate is not going to suddenly change once they get into […]
Our brains can do some pretty weird things to us sometimes. These prove it.
Robotics is already changing how we live, shop, invest, travel, and soon, robo-caregivers will transform how we provide care. AI will deliver extraordinarily innovative services in support of our loved ones, but the use of robots to care for our children, elderly and disabled will also give rise to some very human questions.
Nietzsche loved aphorisms, and here we have collected 15 of his greatest hits.
Another week, another selection of the wittiest and most chin-strokingly interesting comments from our Facebook audience.
Scientists solve the mystery of an ancient Babylonian tablet, rewriting history. They think the tablet has much to teach us.