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A new study has identified 12 times as many viral populations as previous research.
Psychologist and author Dan Ariely understands the appeal of rational economics: If people can be expected to behave rationally, life is simple. You can predict their behavior and devise systems […]
Nothing is 100% safe or 100% effective, but vaccine-hesitancy is even worse. It’s one of the most important decisions you’ll ever make in your life: do I vaccinate my child, and […]
On Friday, Uber will start publicly trading on the New York Stock Exchange, and drivers want to see some of that money.
The answer is surprisingly simple, if cataclysmic.
Buying cards and flowers on Mother’s Day would make Anna Jarvis roll around in her grave.
We’re a long way from the beginnings of life on Earth. Here’s the key to how we got there. The Universe was already two-thirds of its present age by the time […]
Is it the key to understanding why North Korea acts like it does, or an elaborate sham?
It all depends on what type of creativity we’re discussing.
What if all planets were the same distance from Earth as the Moon?
“Everything in society today that can be solved by straightforward analysis gets solved immediately,” says Leonard Mlodinow, theoretical physicist and author of Elastic. Unfortunately, many problems aren’t that simple. To work […]
These three things can help you make smarter and faster decisions.
Your co-workers could be causing your insomnia.
Who should sit atop the iron throne? Let your DNA decide. Here on Earth, we hold one important truth to be self-evident above all others: that all humans are created equal. […]
Controversial map names CEOs of 100 companies producing 71 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions.
Geologists may have spotted evidence of the beginning stages of a subduction zone, a process that drives the movement of Earth’s tectonic plates.
Over two billion people regularly eat insects. Why are Americans so squeamish?
Anxiety does not help other medical conditions, adding trouble on top of trouble.
Our Sun will someday run out of fuel. Here’s what it will look like when that happens. The fate of our Sun is unambiguous, determined solely by its mass. If all […]
There’s few domains in life that aren’t improved by learning how to cook.
A study found how the “map” for the sense of touch develops in the brain.
Study finds that readers are still the best judge of fake news and misinformation.
It’s easy to imagine why people link Heath Ledger’s death to his treacherous penultimate role.
Dividing students according to their abilities has little effect on learning and further entrenches socio-economic inequality. Is it time to stop?
With 14 Tony nominations, HADESTOWN is redefining what a Broadway musical can be. Its creator, songwriter/singer Anaïs Mitchell sits down with Jason Gots to talk about the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, making old things new, and leaving her songwriting cave (temporarily) for the theater.
The whole should equal the sum of its parts, but doesn’t. Here’s why. The whole is equal to the sum of its constituent parts. That’s how everything works, from galaxies to […]
It might be the biggest conundrum facing cosmology today. But perhaps it’s not a controversy; it might be a clue. https://soundcloud.com/ethan-siegel-172073460/starts-with-a-bang-44-the-expanding-universe/ One of the biggest conundrums in the Universe surrounds the […]
