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“One way the internet distorts our picture of ourselves is by feeding the human tendency to overestimate our knowledge of how the world works,” writes philosophy professor Michael Patrick Lynch.
Stock markets may be plummeting, but that doesn’t mean the spread of COVID-19 is hurting everyone’s bottom line.
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A black hole punched a hole 15 Milky Ways across in a galaxy cluster’s gas, by far the largest ‘kaboom’ ever seen. The Universe, everywhere we look, is full of cataclysmic […]
Loneliness may change how our body responds to stress.
Can the American government stop coronavirus spread? Its past actions speak volumes.
The university model needs to evolve.
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The Black Death skipped certain parts of Europe – and that could be a lesson for today’s coronavirus epidemic
An algorithm produced every possible melody. Now its creators want to destroy songwriter copyrights.
A computer coder and a lawyer decide they have a right to speak for all the songwriters that ever lived, those who are alive today, and all those yet to be born.
The oldest known cave-dwelling arthropods have been discovered preserved in amber.
There are scientifically proven ways you can improve your self-esteem, right now.
It’s not a lack of motivation, intelligence, or capability. Here’s how to open a space. Over the past 20 years, the number of bachelor’s degrees awarded in physics has more than […]
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These people had no access to magazines and, generally, no access to the internet.
An epidemiologist explains.
It isn’t just a day that comes every four years; it’s everything we need to keep our calendar aligned with Earth’s orbit. Once every four years, at least under most circumstances, […]
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Misinformation is rampant—but it is the Internet.
Ever wonder, exactly, how stars form from molecular gas and dust? So do scientists. One of the great challenges for astronomy is to determine, in gory detail, how stars are […]
The Hollywood blockbuster may have been right, if only 3.2 billion years off the mark.
Few scientific ideas have been as polarizing as string theory. There are good reasons to both love it and hate it. String theory is perhaps the most controversial big idea in […]
The path to sobriety isn’t one that can be traveled alone, studies suggest.
From travel restrictions to forced isolation, the new coronavirus brings psychological threats, too.
Some fish evolved legs and walked onto the land. Right?