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Modern science progresses with an intensity and even irrationality that Aristotle could not fathom.
Among history’s many thought leaders, Plato may sport the most impressive resume of the bunch. The Athenian philosopher founded the Academy. His Dialogues are required reading at every institution of […]
The mismatch between theory and experiment is anything but certain. The most exciting moments in a scientist’s life occur when you get a result that defies your expectations. Whether you’re a […]
Think of the nicest person you know. The person who would fit into any group configuration, who no one can dislike, or who makes a room warmer and happier just […]
A recent study analyzed the skulls of early Homo species to learn more about the evolution of primate brains.
And could Earth-based life provide the seeds for biology elsewhere? Today, on Earth, there’s an enormous variety and diversity of life on our planet. Every single surviving lifeform appears, in […]
Are “humanized” pigs the future of medical research?
Satellite imagery can help better predict volcanic eruptions by monitoring changes in surface temperature near volcanoes.
The design of a classic video game yields insights on how to address global poverty.
New research from the University of Granada found that stress could help determine sex.
Trust can be a fragile thing. Like decorative china or a ship in a bottle, it breaks if handled clumsily. But unlike those, you can’t set trust in your curio […]
Even 13.8 billion years after the Big Bang, we can reconstruct the first 3 minutes. About 100 years ago, we began to truly understand the nature of the Universe for the […]
The world’s 10 most affected countries are spending up to 59% of their GDP on the effects of violence.
The lush biodiversity of South America’s rainforests is rooted in one of the most cataclysmic events that ever struck Earth.
Global inequality takes many forms, including who has lost the most children
A study looks at how to use nuclear detonations to prevent asteroids from hitting Earth.
A study finds that sexual regret doesn’t change how we behave in the future.
If you want to know what the Universe is like, you have to look at it in the right way. Only by observing it can we know what the Universe is […]
A new study looks at how images of coffee’s origins affect the perception of its premiumness and quality.
Ultimately, this is a fight between a giant reptile and a giant primate.
The more you see them, the better you get at spotting the signs.
The densest objects that haven’t collapsed to black holes can tell us information about the Universe unlike anything else. Swarming through our own galaxy, we’ve detected quite a few bizarre objects: […]
Are we enslaved by the finer things in life?
About 359 million years ago, at the end of the last phase of the Devonian period, there was a mass extinction event or series of events. An estimated 70 to […]
Fifty years of research on children’s toy preferences shows that kids generally prefer toys oriented toward their own gender.
Only 3% of physics graduates and 2% of astronomy graduates are Black. That’s got to change. In the late 1990s, about 5% of the approximately 4000 bachelor’s degrees in physics per […]
The uptick in Arctic lightning could cause more wildfires, potentially triggering a feedback loop that releases massive amounts of carbon into the atmosphere.