Buddhism has rules for slaying your enemies. But the real surprise is finding out who your enemies actually are.
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Surely they can’t be worse…can they?
Carl Jung was one such person.
Psychologists are finding that moral code violations can leave an enduring mark — and may require new types of therapy.
By studying the dwarf galaxy Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte ~3 million light-years away, JWST reveals the Universe’s star-forming history firsthand.
A 19th-century surveying mistake kept lumberjacks away from what is now Minnesota’s largest patch of old-growth trees.
Mahāyāna is the most popular type of Buddhism in the world today.
There are different types of atheism and atheists. In general, they can be classified as the non-religious, the non-believers, and agnostics.
Being mortal makes life so much sweeter.
An independent researcher looks into why there’s such strong opposition to her research.
The genes responsible for facial features may also influence behavior.
Harmony and moderation make for a happier life.
Ancient humans may have evolved to slumber efficiently — and in a crowd.
We confidently state that the Universe is known to be 13.8 billion years old, with an uncertainty of just 1%. Here’s how we know.
With economic turmoil looming, everyone wants a way to keep their funds safe. But is that really possible?
“In our studies, people who are more intelligent don’t mind wander so often when the task is hard but can do it more when tasks are easy.”
Every time our Universe cools below a critical threshold, we fall out of equilibrium. That’s the best thing that ever happened to us.
A researcher explains a little-known niche within modern physics: animal collective behavior.
These ten maps provide a fascinating insight into the impact that soccer (sorry, football) has had worldwide.
The quantum world is one in which rules that are completely foreign to our everyday experience dictate bizarre behavior.
Mycobacterium leprae, the bacteria that cause leprosy, have the surprising ability to grow and reverse aging in armadillo livers.
You only have 4,000 weeks of life. Use them wisely.
The strongest tests of curved space are only possible around the lowest-mass black holes of all. Their small event horizons are the key.
New memories appear to be stabilized in the brain by a neurotransmitter called gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA).
The metaverse is inevitable because it is hardwired into our DNA.
Caffeine does something, but it’s not clear exactly what.
Maybe the brain isn’t “classical” after all.
It’s on a 100,000-year timescale, though, so the next few centuries might not be so comfortable.
Realizing that matter and energy are quantized is important, but quantum particles aren’t the full story; quantum fields are needed, too.
“All moments past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.”