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Voltaire once wrote, “Perfect is the enemy of good.” This advice served him well over the course of his life — not being a slave to perfection enabled him to […]
The process of digging into hard questions makes the moment of discovery all the more satisfying.
There are a lot of unsolved mysteries in the Universe, but dark energy is the most confusing. Here’s why. The majority of the energy in our Universe went completely undiscovered until […]
Should other nations start requiring schools to teach climate science, too?
A newly studied hallucinogenic substance has shown signs of treating mental health conditions more efficiently than psilocybin.
The host of Hardcore History has written his first book, The End Is Always Near.
What can the beauty of autumn’s colors teach us about mortality?
Young galaxies are bright and blue; old galaxies are red and dead. So how did this old, red galaxy form so early? The observable Universe contains two trillion distinct galaxies, but […]
New research finds how power dynamics shape the speech of men and women.
‘Millennial’ doesn’t hold nearly as much meaning as Americans pretend it does. Here’s why.
A company claims to make the world’s first humanoid android and offers ‘digital immortality”.
Primordial Earth exists in a small chamber in New Jersey.
“I think when you come to grips with what happened, it gives you a chance of doing something different. What’s really dark is when you’re going through something and you have no perspective.” By revisiting—through poetry—his 9 years in prison for a teenage carjacking, Reginald Dwayne Betts finds freedoms most of us have never known.
Unsurprisingly, the results showed that the more materialistic a person was, the less likely they were to engage in reduced consumption.
What could be better than “do unto others as you would have others do unto you”?
When the protection of academic freedom is compromised, scholarship and greater society suffer the effects.
Can neural networks help scientists discover laws about more complex phenomena, like quantum mechanics?
Many people, including some scientists, fear that the coming 5G WiFi revolution will harm humans. Here’s why that’s unfounded. Over the coming few years, a new set of infrastructure will […]
How do we integrate Gen Z into the 21st century workforce? Intergenerational differences are challenging: whether it’s listening to grandpa’s lecture on what’s wrong with the world these days or […]
Shouldn’t mutually consenting adults be allowed to make these decisions for themselves?
When it comes time for humanity to pick a new home, where will we go?
The possibility of an easy, non-invasive detection method arises.
Have you ever found yourself so engrossed in your work that, hours later, you’ve been shocked to discover you’ve missed your lunch break? Maybe you’ve had a conversation with a […]
Researchers recently discovered an antibody that totally disrupts the influenza virus’s ability to replicate; it could be used to design a universal flu vaccine.
Archetypes of creation and the origin of all things.
Forget about alien nonsense. The Universe as it actually is doesn’t need any embellishments to be interesting. In our Solar System, the planets, moons, asteroids, comets and other masses are […]
A historic NASA probe sends back a treasure-trove of information from billions of miles away.
A new paper claims that scientists might be wildly mistaken about the density — and therefore, the shape — of our universe.