On Earth Day, April 22, millions of people hit the streets of Washington, D.C., and cities worldwide to March for Science. People thought of puns and put them on signs.
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Three massive mergers threaten to put control of the world’s food in dangerously few hands.
Was it really a low-entropy state? And what does that mean for the second law of thermodynamics? “Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize […]
Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Lexicographer Kory Stamper on the slipperiness of language and how the sausage of dictionaries is made.
A groundbreaking study from a Harvard University team suggests that monogamy may be genetically programmed within some mammals.
If it weren’t just the three space and one time dimensions, what would be different? “There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a […]
The Repair Cafe movement was started in the Netherlands in 2009 to allow people to bring in their goods to be fixed by volunteers for free. There are now over 1200 Repair Cafes throughout the world. Should you start one?
And if you’re experiencing it consistently, you just might be doing it wrong all along. “I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over […]
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson releases an emotional video on the state of science in America.
One of CRISPR-cas9’s inventors has just announced the arrival of an inexpensive, portable diagnostic tool: SHERLOCK.
Stanford University is offering medical trainees a real-time virtual tour through heart defects.
The program picked up association biases nearly identical to those seen in human subjects.
A new genetic test could improve the palm oil industry and reduce deforestation.
When we think about a long-term solution to our energy needs, none of today’s options are this good. “I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would […]
The belief that things will be better in the future is called optimism bias. Being overly optimistic can lead you to miss an important health check up or make bad financial decisions.
Luck doesn’t receive enough credit.
Forget everything you think you learned on your favorite crime scene drama.
Will moisture farming be the next big cash crop of the 21st century?
Tesla’s market cap surpassed that of GM and Ford on April 10, 2017.
There’s really something new there, even if physicists forget. “Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.” –Ludwig Borne In 1998, two teams of scientists announced a shocking […]
The world’s most populated country has had its fair share of great minds. Here, we take a quick look at ten thinkers you might not have thought about.
‘Deep learning’ AI should be able to explain its automated decision-making—but it can’t. And even its creators are lost on where to begin.
From 13.4 billion years ago, the current record-holder is unlikely to fall anytime soon. Why? A combination of science… and luck. “We’ve taken a major step back in time, beyond what […]
The thoughts on ruthless leadership by Italian politician and writer Niccolò Machiavelli resonate today.
The secret lies in neuroplasticity.
I mean, who wants to step into a minefield and start poking around?
Together, Russia and America sell almost 60% of all weapons traded around the world.
NASA scientists discover what two places in the solar system might have favorable conditions for alien life.
There’s a smallest scale and a shortest time at which physics makes any sense. What sets that limit? “There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.” –Dick […]
A chorus of new science is showing that evolution has orchestrated life to leave no room for solos. A grander view of life is revealing higher-level, need-centric relational logic patterns (as in David Haskell’s The Songs of Trees).