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A new study analyzed Martian glaciers to discover that the planet had numerous ice ages.
And after years of mystery, we finally know where they come from. Here on Earth, thunderstorms and accompanying lightning strikes represent tremendous releases of energy. It was way back in 2011 […]
Researchers discover black holes that violate the uniqueness theorem and have “gravitational hair.”
The study found that people who spoke the same language tended to be more closely related despite living far apart.
New research from MIT is unintuitive but could lead to a better system.
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 […]
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 […]