Attenborough told the audience at COP24 that climate change is “our greatest threat in thousands of years.”
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Who would have thought that endlessly comparing your life to others would make you feel bad?
Back with another one of those block(chain)-rockin’ reads.
Ketamine is showing promise in alleviating suicidal thoughts.
The first list of antidepressant food scores restructures the “standard” American diet.
Galaxies are found uniformly everywhere in the Universe, except in the Milky Way’s plane. Here’s why. From the time of their very first discovery, the Universe’s grand spirals have puzzled astronomers. […]
The Dalai Lama is important, so important that he might decide not to come back after his next death.
What do the “seduction movement,” the Virginia Tech shooter, and the Asian-American experience have in common? Wesley Yang thinks and writes with devastating clarity about loneliness, invisibility, and the incoherence of American life.
We can go to deeper and deeper levels, finding more fundamental quantities as we do. But is there a truly fundamental quantity? What is the Universe, at a fundamental level, […]
Anchorage was rocked by back-to-back earthquakes on Friday morning, prompting a tsunami warning.
There are many ways to posit the fundamental nature of reality.
It’s likely one of the biggest data breaches in corporate history.
A trio of scientists from Harvard hopes to do this in 2019.
Over 67,000 trials by the Color Guard can’t be wrong.
In order to build a second Earth, we need to look at how the first one was made.
Baby boomers seem to have had an advantage in nearly every financial metric compared to millennials, according to a new study from the Federal Reserve.
As this typewritten map shows, constraints can be freeing.
If particles weren’t also waves, the Sun would never achieve nuclear fusion. Without quantum mechanics, life on Earth would never have come to exist. The greatest source of newly-produced energy in […]
A semi-scientific test of touchscreen kiosks in eight McDonald’s restaurants in the U.K. have caused alarm that microbiologists say is unwarranted.
The $480 million contract could lead the company to make more than 100,000 augmented reality headsets for the military.
It has experts baffled.
The Great White North has found a way to provide universal healthcare with more salubrious results and trimmed national costs. Take notes, America.
The particles are able to travel deep into tissue in ways that other treatments simply can’t.
One of the most famous experiments in psychology might be completely wrong.
There is no universal diet or exercise program.
Researchers find out why some people believe utter BS.
Neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky admits that when you’re on the bottom of a hierarchy, “it sucks whether you are a baboon or a human.” Sapolsky suggests that as a business leader, […]
The Mars landing is a reminder that we never know what—or whom—we might discover out there.
At ground zero, Trinitite, the green, glassy substance found in the area, is still radioactive and must not be picked up. The Trinity Site was where the first atomic bomb […]