And what do we still have left to learn? The original idea of a black hole goes all the way back to 1783, when Cambridge scientist John Michell recognized that a […]
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Researchers hope the technology will further our understanding of the brain, but lawmakers may not be ready for the ethical challenges.
Believe it or not, for a few decades, giving people “milk transfusions” was all the rage.
Upstreamism advocate Rishi Manchanda calls us to understand health not as a “personal responsibility” but a “common good.”
Digitally recording historical sites could serve as insurance in the case of disaster.
The first image of an Event Horizon is here. Here’s what it means. Variety isn’t just the spice of life, but a natural consequence of living in our Universe. Gravitation, obeying […]
Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy, is a programmer. When he got the idea to begin posting free online classes, he was able to get the basic infrastructure in place […]
The map shows the movements of seven different wolves over the course of a season.
The calorie is the basic unit of measure of food — and it might be off.
Philosopher Alan Watts thoughts on the the all-pervading presence of nature.
We’ve never seen an image of a black hole’s event horizon before. Here’s what we’re expecting, based on what we already know. For hundreds of years, physicists have hypothesized that the […]
Might microdosing LSD and psilocybin be a safe, effective way to treat depression and other disorders?
Can you make solar power work when the sun goes down? You can, and Dubai is about to run a city that way.
They seem to have a mechanism for caring similar to ours.
Books that will sharpen the youthful mind.
New research at Carnegie Mellon University suggests a game of musical chairs.
Vitamins do work — when eaten in whole foods, not pills.
Beyond the oceans boiling and the death of our Sun, Earth’s ultimate fate won’t be determined until far in the distant future. It took the Universe 13.8 billion years to create […]
What does the power of the online mob hold for tyranny and conformity?
The film becomes the story of the making of the film. From his Monty Python days to now, Don Quixote is a metaphor for Terry Gilliam’s whole career, and for his 30 year project of making a film about a film about the knight of the woeful countenance. We talk about Muppets, time, and basically everything else two humans can talk about.
Sometimes, the simplest questions of all are the most difficult to meaningfully answer. If you were to take any tiny piece of matter in our known Universe and break it […]
Unlike much of the United States, the South has a culture of honor. While this makes Southerners more polite, it’s also something of a double-edged sword.
He reminds us that meaning is wherever we choose to look.
When the Universe gives us clues, we ignore them at our own peril. When you approach the world scientifically, you seek to gain knowledge about how it works by asking it […]
China is testing electronic monitoring of students’ attention levels.
“We inject one tumor and we see all of the other tumors just melt away.”
A long-ridiculed theory about humankind’s early leap of consciousness is revived.
The new fossil offers insight into when whales returned to the oceans millions of years ago.
A new experiment shows that two observers can experience divergent realities (if they go subatomic).