An ecological silver bullet is missing the target altogether.
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The Russian-built FEDOR was launched on a mission to help ISS astronauts.
Picking up where we left off a year ago, a conversation about the homeostatic imperative as it plays out in everything from bacteria to pharmaceutical companies—and how the marvelous apparatus of the human mind also gets us into all kinds of trouble.
Black holes are regions of extreme gravity, but dark matter barely interacts at all. Do they play well together? Black holes are some of the most extreme objects in the […]
An outbreak in the number of measles cases in the UK has resulted in the country losing its World Health Organization dedicated “measles-free” status. The culprits responsible for this decline: […]
What makes a life worth living as you grow older?
The world’s largest retailer has evolved “like a flea market,” according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal.
Emojis might contain more emotional information than meets the eye.
Gail Bradbrook, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, called for a mass psychedelic act of civil disobedience in protest of drug criminalization.
It’s the largest, most massive planet in the Solar System. But what’s the real story behind all the impacts on Jupiter? One of the most terrifying prospects here on Earth is […]
How do we combat the roots of these hateful forces?
The Amazon Rainforest is often called “The Planet’s Lungs.”
Connecting with an audience, as any comic knows, means reading that audience. It’s energetic improv in real time—you need to notice who’s engaged, what’s engaging them, and build on that. […]
The loss of elephants accelerates climate change.
The 2020 Democratic candidate’s plan to give Americans a universal basic income seems to include a special provision for truckers.
Fauna and flora refuse to go quietly into the Anthropocene.
A transformational tool for the future of the world.
Cat owners are no more likely to be crazy than you.
If quantum gravity is right, these gravitational ripples must be more than waves; they must be particles, too. Back in February of 2016, LIGO made an announcement that changed our […]
The bid to buy Greenland is unlikely to become seriously considered.
In a new study, people who posted a lot of selfies were generally viewed as less likeable and more lonely.
Revolutionary space technology that’ll take us into the future.
E-cigarettes might possibly be safer than traditional cigarettes, but they come with their own risks.
When the Universe expands, photons redshift to longer wavelengths and lower energies. So where does that energy go? Imagine the ultimate version of a toy Universe: it’s expanding, it’s full of […]
Yet another study shows the potential efficacy of psychedelics in treating addiction.
The term “self-actualization” is often bandied about on the web, but how does one go about becoming self-actualized really?
“Trust is so important to how we scale an idea. Without that trust, we don’t take risks. And without risk we don’t build that next big thing,” says Nilofer Merchant, […]
During World War II, the U.S. incarcerated over 100,000 Japanese Americans in concentration camps throughout the West.
Zizek is on the left and dislikes political correctness. How does that work out?
How deep are America’s cultural fault lines? Depends on which data you crunch.