Neil deGrasse Tyson is working in with video game developers to create a space exploration game called Space Odyssey.
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In the glamor-filled world of drag queens, fashion and “ethical self-fashioning” might be closer than we think.
A popular physicist shares why he believes that the deepest nature of reality is hidden from us.
A comprehensive new study finds that lefties are, in fact, better at advanced math.
With the launch of JPSS-1 coming up this year, everything that NASA Earth science stands for hinges on its success. “There is, then, no water that is wholly of the Pacific, […]
The children of very young and very old fathers were most affected.
Elon Musk publishes a visionary paper on his company’s plans to colonize space.
Never heard of SKA, the square kilometer array? Once it starts taking data, you’ll never forget it. “Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for […]
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto just took one giant leap forward in his nation’s drug policies.
Polymaths are people who have excelled in diverse pursuits, and several of those polymaths left us with some very practical advice on how to succeed.
Achieving liquid light at room temperature will boost research into quantum hydrodynamics.
Researchers at the University of Waterloo have connected inattention and giving up on your dreams.
Smoking reflects a deep divide in American society.
Instead of viewing racism as a moral failure, Racists Anonymous treats it like a disease from which everyone suffers.
Sure, the old Greek guys from 2,400 years ago get all the glory. But these living philosophers have a ton to say about life, the universe, and everything as it relates to right now.
Long thought to be a fallacy, new analysis shows the ‘hot hand’ is real, and Klay Thompson has it. “Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on […]
Facebook researchers have found that dialog agents being trained to negotiate will create their own non-human language to be more effective. What does this mean for the future of language?
Amazon’s blockbuster purchase of Whole Foods will lead to big changes in how we shop.
Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Actor Timothy Spall on the layers of contradictions and complexities that define a person, and what’s underneath.
Our way of life needs a skills upgrade, to reinstall certain old stoic ideas. Using your rights well needs “happiness bootcamp” skills.
Self-diagnosing celiac disease is a problem. Yet gluten is becoming an increasing issue for many.
Add sideways tornadoes to the list of things you can have when your atmosphere is as tenuous as Mars’ is. “This would be like an F8 tornado sweeping across the surface. […]
Since the moment humans became aware of their existence, they have been haunted by the knowledge that it will inevitably come to an end and the hope to change this […]
There are three types of intelligence that are necessary for success in life, says the noted psychologist Robert Sternberg.
This is the first vision test of a fetus from inside the womb.
More massive is bigger, less massive is smaller, right? That’s not even half the story. “Billions of years from now our sun, then a distended red giant star, will have reduced […]
It turns out most of the ocean’s plastic is coming from a single corner of the world.
It could be on the market in about five years.
Unless we take a more scientific approach to philanthropy, we risk spending a lot of money doing some very backward, ineffective, and inefficient things.