Freedom and democracy are great, but our understanding of what those things are has changed a lot since we came up with them.
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Sean Hannity took the stage at a rally for President Donald Trump Monday night and delivered a short, supportive speech.
The barrier to solar energy has always been storage. Now, bottled sunshine has a shelf-life of 18 years.
It’s an asteroid, it’s a comet, it’s actually a spacecraft?
The Royole Corporation beat Samsung to the punch when it recently released the world’s first commercially available folding smartphone.
A perspective from Brother Guy Consolmagno, astronomer and theologian.
Your fate is only rarely determined at birth. Ultimately, every star has a chance to get there. Three times in the past 1,000 years, a portion of humanity has looked up […]
Famously unusual case studies that perplexed psychologists.
Fox News, NBC, Facebook and CNN have all stopped airing the commercial, which some critics have labelled as inflammatory and racist.
As long as we fail to name capitalism as a key cause of mass extinction, we will remain powerless to break its tragic story.
Researchers found that Olympic silver medalists lived longer and earned more than gold medalists, which begs the question of what matters: your success, or how you respond to it.
The renowned linguist and controversial political critic said President Donald Trump is choosing to race toward the catastrophes of climate change.
Culture determines how mental illness or aberrant mental behavior is viewed and dealt with.
These ten ghostly astronomical sights house some deep-and-frightening scientific truths within them. With a huge suite of different observatories for viewing the Universe, innumerable details can be revealed. This ‘Godzilla’ asterism […]
Now is a good time to brush up on who’s on the ballot.
It’s exotic, incredibly cold stuff.
Notes from the Fog author Ben Marcus on Elon Musk, the weird existential joys of the reality TV show Castaways, and whether we will eat in the future.
We speak about it, argue over it, and even fight wars for it. We know it when we see it. But just what is energy, anyway? When it comes to being […]
New psychological research suggests that psychopaths are attracted to others with their same disposition.
More and more companies are incorporating machine-based intelligence in decision-making processes. Computers are great at numbers and finding meaningful trends in big data, so this makes sense. On the other […]
As voting becomes digital, we should consider rewarding voters for taking part in the process.
Taking a modern look at a millennia-old concept.
Follow along as the InSight spacecraft crosses millions of miles to the red planet.
Did you know? Looped music has been used a means of torture.
Electrons show chemists how to see more with less.
Whether keto or vegan, finding love on restrictive diets is no easy task.
A new paper in Nature adds urgency to the fight against climate change.