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An orangutan has settled into a Florida home after a court granted her personhood rights. But what is the basis for personhood?
It may very well be the case that there are some people who feel perfectly content with who they are out there, but for most of us, there are things […]
Project to map global ‘species richness’ highlights the variety of biodiversity itself
Your microbiome begins in your mouth. Why don’t we look there more often?
A theoretical view of a distant world so far from our Sun that our Solar System appears barely brighter than the remaining stars in the sky. ( Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC)) Pluto […]
It might seem puzzling, in a Universe bound by the speed of light, that this could be true. Here’s the science behind it. If you look out into the distant Universe, […]
Venice’s mayor, Luigi Brugnaro, said the city was “on its knees.”
Yet interpersonal trust is at its lowest point in 50 years.
Scientists actively researching this have known the answer for quite some time. It’s time for everyone to catch up. The Big Bang happened 13.8 billion years ago, and is generally regarded […]
It’s one of our five major personality traits, and arguably, it’s the worst one. Why are some human beings neurotic?
Dinosaurs never left Earth, but they still traveled millions of miles through the Milky Way galaxy.
A variety of structures exist to both treat employees with more respect and increase productivity.
“What a shock,” said no dog lover ever.
Voltaire once wrote, “Perfect is the enemy of good.” This advice served him well over the course of his life — not being a slave to perfection enabled him to […]
The process of digging into hard questions makes the moment of discovery all the more satisfying.
There are a lot of unsolved mysteries in the Universe, but dark energy is the most confusing. Here’s why. The majority of the energy in our Universe went completely undiscovered until […]
Should other nations start requiring schools to teach climate science, too?
A newly studied hallucinogenic substance has shown signs of treating mental health conditions more efficiently than psilocybin.
The host of Hardcore History has written his first book, The End Is Always Near.
What can the beauty of autumn’s colors teach us about mortality?
Young galaxies are bright and blue; old galaxies are red and dead. So how did this old, red galaxy form so early? The observable Universe contains two trillion distinct galaxies, but […]
New research finds how power dynamics shape the speech of men and women.
‘Millennial’ doesn’t hold nearly as much meaning as Americans pretend it does. Here’s why.
A company claims to make the world’s first humanoid android and offers ‘digital immortality”.
Primordial Earth exists in a small chamber in New Jersey.
“I think when you come to grips with what happened, it gives you a chance of doing something different. What’s really dark is when you’re going through something and you have no perspective.” By revisiting—through poetry—his 9 years in prison for a teenage carjacking, Reginald Dwayne Betts finds freedoms most of us have never known.
Unsurprisingly, the results showed that the more materialistic a person was, the less likely they were to engage in reduced consumption.