Time always moves in the same direction, but what if the Universe were contracting? As we step forward in time, a number of things always seem to happen together. Objects […]
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Older people are in grave danger of being left behind.
Most people believe you can win an argument with facts – but when “facts” are so often subject to doubt, are personal experiences trusted more?
A recent study showed that monkeys can make logical choices when given an A or B scenario.
Meet a spectacular new blue—the first inorganic new blue in some time.
The best time to start was yesterday, the second best is now.
Let noted cognitive psychologist and linguist Steven Pinker introduce you to psychology.
It’s not a gambit. It’s not fraud. It’s not an opinion. And it’s not biased like you think it is. Most of us, when we think about what science is, default […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently issued $8 million in follow-up funding to a team of neuroengineers developing brain-to-brain and brain-to-machine technology.
The platform experiments with letting users decide what content needs flagging.
Inequality in wealth, gender, and race grew to unprecedented levels across the world, according to OxFam report.
What we’ve seen isn’t necessarily what we get, but the most common world doesn’t look like ours. There’s a very common myth out there in astronomy: the idea that the Sun […]
There is no going “back to normal.”
A new study casts doubt on previous research showing that emotional well-being plateaus at an income of $75,000 per year.
This map of Europe’s 20 most populous islands holds a few surprises and unlocks a truckload of trivia.
Researchers find a way to distort laser light to survive a trip through disordered obstacles.
Researchers devise a record-breaking laser transmission that avoids atmospheric interference.
Could we have predicted COVID-19 through social media trends?
The night sky is already noticeably different, and bigger changes are ahead. For all of human history until the launch of Sputnik, the only objects in the night sky were naturally […]
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Identifying primordial ripples would be key to understanding the conditions of the early universe.
History is not the story of great people directing the course of the world. It’s about networks. Sure, great people may have had an outsized pull on certain events. But […]
A new survey, the DESI Legacy Imaging Survey, has found more lenses than all others put together. One of Einstein’s most revolutionary predictions is that mass bends light. During a […]
The main bioactive compound in catnip seems to protect cats from mosquitoes. It might protect humans, too.
A unique exoplanet without clouds or haze was found by astrophysicists from Harvard and Smithsonian.
People often make a killing in stocks, but there are other ways to potentially turn major profits.
NASA is scrapping its Apollo-era launcher platform to make room for new infrastructure that will support upcoming Artemis missions.
Darwin was right again—sort of.