One year ago, Syrian refugee Yusra Mardini was swimming for her life in the Mediterranean Sea, desperate to escape her war torn country. This week, she will swim for gold at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
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The greatest new anime of 2015 has some incredibly powerful feats. Here’s the physics of the most sensational one. “Human beings are strong because we have the ability to change […]
A new study from the Mayo Clinic revealed that only 2.7 percent of Americans live a healthy lifestyle. Perhaps the problem is their definition of healthy.
Many of us balk at the idea of biotech implants as an affront to privacy and good old-fashioned humanity – but what if it could restore your eyesight and prevent Alzheimer’s, what then?
Ukraine’s government is planning to turn the contaminated area around Chernobyl into a producer of renewable energy.
Could the secret to understanding gravity be held in reducing, not increasing, the number of dimensions? This article is written by Sabine Hossenfelder. Sabine is a theoretical physicist specialized in […]
The 2016 Presidential election, between Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump, will be the first without key provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act to stop voter disenfranchisement.
A new study reports that political language is becoming more partisan and polarized. How is this new and what effects might this have on our republic?
While progress has been made in understanding the mechanisms behind consciousness, a seemingly limitless neuronal interaction makes discovering a point of origin challenging.
How the bulge, disk, and halo stars of Andromeda reveal lessons we cannot see about our own galaxy. “He who would search for pearls must dive below.” –John Dryden The Milky […]
According to neuroscience, fear is killing us.
Research into the Japanese concept of “forest bathing” offers insightful and helpful lessons on stress, health, and creativity.
Credit card debt is an increasing problem for many Americans. It seems insurmountable, but it can be overcome. It just needs to be conquered one step at a time, and […]
The Perseid meteor shower is coming, which may put you in the mindset to wonder “What causes a meteor shower?”
One group of scientists has brought attention to a possible side-effect of these deep-space missions to the moon: heart disease.
The strongest pull for hundreds of millions of light years goes toe-to-toe against the most energetic force of all. “We detect motion along this axis, but right now our data cannot […]
Nikola Tesla, one of history’s most celebrated inventors, has an unexpected connection to the current U.S. Elections.
The map of Spain is tattooed into the Catalan landscape, as indelible streets and avenues
Many predictions by Nikola Tesla, one of the world’s most celebrated inventors, have already come true and some might in the near future.
The movement’s members demanded the voting rights for women and advocated against gender discrimination in political and economic life.
Americans are as divided as ever, and we may not even agree on what freedom is anymore. The ideas of Isaiah Berlin may shed some light on the subject.
And it doesn’t mean we should give up, but it does mean we’ve got a lot of work to do! “‘Star Trek’ says that it has not all happened, it has […]
Bill Nye changed his mind. Over a hundred Nobel laureates are combating Greenpeace. Will activists ever consider the science?
New analyses of data gathered by the 2001 Mars Odyssey rover reveals that water molecules are bound up in the very soil of Mars.
German researchers find an unexpected source for new antibiotics as growing drug resistance threatens to cause worldwide epidemics.
The LUX experiment just set the tightest bounds ever on dark matter, and may lead us down a different path entirely. “For me the best answer is not in words […]
Nuts!, a new documentary film by Penny Lane, focuses on John R. Brinkley, a “doctor” who amassed a fortune by surgically inserting pieces of a goats’ testicles to treat impotence in men.
Researchers possibly identify LUCA, the common ancestor to all life on Earth, and figure out where it lived.
While there are presently more than ~10²³ stars in the Universe shining today, each one of them is fated to live only for a finite amount of time. While more […]
Over 3,000 studies have shown acupuncture to be no better than a placebo. Yet it has led researchers to discover something that might aid in pain relief.