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With ~400 billion stars in the Milky Way and 6-20 trillion galaxies overall, that makes for a lot of stars. But not as many as you’d think.
Language influences how you visually process the world, which in turn influences your memory of it.
Simple “nudges” to remind people to show up for court could help keep thousands out of jail.
The brain implant lets her talk four times faster than the previous record.
The region of Catalonia has been at odds with greater Spain for over 300 years. The prospect of autonomy remains a distant and fading dream.
Experts say it’s likely space junk—and there’s plenty more where that came from.
Today’s popular weight-loss drugs could soon be joined by brain stimulation and gene therapies.
The biggest, brightest galaxies are the easiest to spot, but the tiniest ones teach us about how the Milky Way assembled and grew up!
Is true equality achievable — or even desirable? Go on a journey through the strange and unsettling “Land of Justice.”
A new book envisions an encounter of minds between the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, the physicist Werner Heisenberg, and the philosopher Immanuel Kant.
There’s really only one mistake you can make: continue doing the same thing you already know is hurting you and expect a different result.
American students are being compelled to specialize earlier and earlier. Here’s what it takes to build a successful physics foundation.
Art isn’t a side note in human history; it’s the main text.
Medical psychologist Catherine Monk explains how prenatal mental care benefits both mothers and babies.
Being a good leader requires emotional capital, which is one reason why many bosses are so bad at it.
A clock, designed and built in Europe, ran hopelessly at the wrong rate when brought to America. The physics of gravity explains why.
In the 1960s, politicians and bureaucrats were formulating the Central Arizona Project. Citizens fought back.
The polymath used science to elevate his art.
Millennials — who were raised to expect unlimited success but found only disappointment — can be drawn to manifestation.
Positron emission tomography (PET) scans use positrons — the antimatter equivalent of an electron — to locate cancer in the body.
Can quantum computers do things that standard, classical computers can’t? No. But if they can calculate faster, that’s quantum supremacy.
Sixty years later, will anybody have heard of COVID?
Six authors, six monumental legacies, and a unique thread connecting them: a solitary novel that shines brightly.
Wherever automation rises, religiosity falls.
Do you really need a monstrous upbringing to make monsters?
When the average person has a “theory,” they’re just guessing. But for a scientist, a theory is the pinnacle of what we can achieve.
Whether you’re a leader looking to ramp up team output or just trying to improve your skill set, hard work alone is not enough.