A deadly myth has been manufactured from poor methods and wishful thinking.
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Civil engineer Martin Lebek has a brilliant plan to redress the world’s phosphorus imbalance.
There’s such thing as a healthy sense of pride in oneself and one’s accomplishments.
Somewhere out there in the Universe is the heaviest neutron star, and elsewhere lies the lightest black hole. Where’s the line between them?
Quelle horreur! Paris isn’t just a 15-minute city; it’s a five-minute city.
Frugality can also benefit the environment.
Depression might be similar to dreaming.
Are anti-workers the lazy children of privilege or the brave vanguard of a utopic upheaval?
“The Tao of the wise is to work without effort.”
Queen Calafia seems like she could have sprung from the pages of a modern fantasy novel.
“Like real dreams, it does not explain, does not complete its sequences,” film critic Roger Ebert once wrote about “Mulholland Drive.”
Two very different ideas, wormholes and quantum entanglement, might be fundamentally related. What would “ER = EPR” mean for our Universe?
About 1 in 5 adults now say they have no religious affiliation, up from 1 in 50 in 1960.
Some scientists think brain organoids could develop a form of consciousness. Others say that’s science fiction.
The secret may lie in an old idiom: “Sleep on it.”
The 1,200-year-old “Book of Ingenious Devices” contains designs for futuristic inventions like gas masks, water fountains, and digging machines.
Even with quantum teleportation and the existence of entangled quantum states, faster-than-light communication still remains impossible.
Not even Einstein immediately knew the power of the equations he gave us.
Four key components to guide the creation of emotional intelligence training for leaders.
Within the “Dark Triad” of personality traits, narcissism exists on a confidence spectrum.
Jules Verne wrote about gasoline-powered vehicles, weapons of mass destruction, and global warming more than a century ago.
What if we could harvest energy from human heat, sweat, or vibrations?
Left to their own devices, yeast cells will consume all available resources and poison themselves to death. Is humanity smarter than that?
For Nietzsche, a great work of art can either veil the horror of reality or – better yet – help us face it.
The state of global democracy is relatively strong — but there are clear signs of recent erosion.
Ev Fedorenko’s Interesting Brains Project highlights the human brain’s remarkable capacity to adapt, reorganize in the face of early damage.
This is your brain on work.
The zero-point energy of empty space is not zero. Even with all the physics we know, we have no idea how to calculate what it ought to be.