And when you demand ‘perfectly identical,’ just how high of a bar are you setting? “Lives are snowflakes — unique in detail, forming patterns we have seen before, but as like one another […]
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Diabetes, certain forms of cancer, and other conditions may also be inhibited.
Understanding the biology of aging can help us develop strategies to slow or even overcome it.
A new genetic study sees us getting gently stupider over time.
Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. French philosopher and filmmaker “BHL” on evil, complacency, and the necessity of outsider thinking.
Science, pictures, and a revolution in what we know is out there. “The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.” –Edwin Hubble The Hubble Space Telescope took its first […]
Rates of crime and recidivism in America are very high. One Cleveland-based French restaurant, however, leads the way in helping ex-cons to thrive and not reoffend after their sentences.
Study finds that bacteria can communicate electrically through out the body.
Over 2 billion people worldwide eat insects, such as crickets. Crickets are easy to harvest, high in protein, and nutrient rich. In an age of growing environmental awareness about the significant resources needed for raising livestock, crickets would seemingly be the food of the future. Why aren’t they on your dinner plate?
Nearly 100 years after Hubble first showed us the Universe is expanding, we still don’t know its rate. “In the far, far future, essentially all matter will have returned to […]
The feud between some of the Rockefellers and ExxonMobil has intensified.
Descartes’ solitary, inward-facing mindset misconstrues the social nature of our thinking. Social Cartesianism better captures the soul of what matters in distinguishing humans from animals or machines.
Proportional theory, telescopy, time pressure, and the reminiscence bump may each play a role.
Dying is expensive, but it shouldn’t be so.
Neuroscientist David Linden says the human need for love is actually the indirect result of our inefficient neurons.
If you think you can just take a test and demonstrate your scientific literacy, think again. “Through basic science literacy, people can understand the policy choices we need to be making. […]
In 1972, eight mice were placed in a utopia. Full of food, water, bedding, and space for 3000 mice. Within three years there were no survivors.
Joe Camel didn’t want you to know about the secret ingredient to his success.
The “Red Queen Hypothesis” has been strengthened considerably by this study.
A superbug that resisted all available bacteria kills a woman in Reno, Nevada.
Why it’s not “the next Hubble,” but “the first James Webb.” “…because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills; because that challenge is […]
A large new study finds a relationship between consumption of hot red peppers and mortality.
Important new research on the right amount of screen time for teens. A Large-Scale Test of the Goldilocks Hypothesis: Quantifying the Relations Between Digital-Screen Use and the Mental Well-Being of Adolescents, tested the theory that instead of a linear relationship between teen screen-time and harm, there was an amount that was just right.
A global risk report by the World Economic Forum lists populism and social division among the top five trends that will determine global markets in 2017 and beyond.
Louise Tarrant argues less work is not weakness, but a sign of prosperity and a necessity to the coming automation.
More than 630 companies are calling out President-elect Donald Trump in an open letter. It asks him to keep the promises the United States made during the Paris Agreement and move us closer to a low-carbon economy.
Only a few galaxies exhibit this green glow in the nearby Universe. At early times, it’s practically all of the brightest ones. “The discovery that young galaxies are so unexpectedly […]
New research reveals that people find those who use profanity more honest and trustworthy.
Astrophysicist Michael J. I. Brown offers some guidelines for identifying fake or bad science.
Russian government officials propose legislation to ban the sale of cigarettes to anyone born after 2015.