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 […]
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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.
The green market is growing exponentially. But will the U.S. seize the economic opportunity?
“Sea of Shadows” is a documentary you can’t afford to miss.
If you think about the way a gravitational wave detector works, you might encounter a paradox. Here’s the solution. One of the greatest scientific achievements in all of human history […]
Maybe it’s time to show this report your employer?
The finding represents one of the first times we have observed how the human brain clears out its waste products.
During a 2005 commencement address at Stanford University, Steve Jobs related an anecdote about an experience he had shortly after dropping out of college that conveys one of the qualities […]
100+ years ago, General Relativity came along, and Einstein gave the Universe a cosmological constant. Here’s why that was a mistake. Back in the 17th century, Isaac Newton put forth the […]