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And it didn’t even need a transit to do it! “Mars is much closer to the characteristics of Earth. It has a fall, winter, summer and spring. North Pole, South Pole, […]
Jobs have doubled in the past five years.
Tesla may have been the spark necessary to ignite the electric car industry.
It has been brought to my attention that some of you would like to have a copy of my book, autographed and personalized, and perhaps sent to either you or […]
Indiana Jones would have been a lot less irritable if he had access to machine learning.
New research demonstrates for the first time the domestic canine’s ability to discern between positive and negative emotions in humans.
Can colorblindness be eliminated simply by changing our approach to diagnostics? Experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats claims it can be.
The two best-explored outer Solar System worlds orbit one another. But no one was prepared for what New Horizons saw. “Just as a Chihuahua is still a dog, these ice dwarfs […]
Four years ago, the world was shaken with the announcement of a planet around Alpha Centauri. But was it real? “You’re on Earth. There’s no cure for that.” –Samuel Beckett If […]
Watch entertaining reconstructions of classic experiments demonstrating our predisposition toward dishonesty.
Mark Rothko’s suicide colored how we’ve seen his art ever since. His son’s book paints a brighter, richer picture.
Life won’t let you go; not because brighter days are right around the corner, but because it just won’t.
Developers are working on a tablet for the blind.
The strain of peering into our mobile phones and tablets is causing serious vision problems.
Culturally and economically, modern Turkey is at a dangerous crossroads.
Part art installation, part green design. Completely cool.
A new study shows that preventative care has curbed fatal cases of treatable types of cancer, though other forms of the disease still present a serious mortal danger.
Coming to grips with the real changes.
Men may finally be able to take control of their reproductive futures.
Here’s some easy health advice we should all take with us into the New Year.
The ability for mass to bend and magnify background light is a unique feature of General Relativity. But it can fool us, too. “Gravitational and electromagnetic interactions are long-range interactions, meaning […]
No doubt you’ve heard one of these arguments given as a reason against gun control. Problem is, it’s very dubious logic.
The Campbell Soup Company says it will go ahead and label foods that contain GMO ingredients, breaking industry ranks on the issue holding up wider adoption of agricultural biotechnology.
A four-month–old little girl is alive today because of an inexpensive virtual reality device made by Google.
With current technology, things might take generations. But that could be greatly reduced with a little help. “Oh, yes — I know you. There was a time you looked at the stars and […]
Throughout the world, higher incomes translate into less religiosity, and vice versa. But that rule does not apply to the Americans, nor to the Chinese.
Nick Lane believes he can explain the “black hole” at the heart of biology. And in the process predict traits that even alien life will have. Here are some amazing facts from biology.
A complete refusal to accept basic facts has made a religion of our gun obsession.
How we went from our Milky Way, alone, to the entire Universe. “Gamow was fantastic in his ideas. He was right, he was wrong. More often wrong than right. Always […]