A study looks at how to use nuclear detonations to prevent asteroids from hitting Earth.
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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.
New research sheds light on the indoctrination process of radical extremist groups.
Differences in the way that the Hubble constant—which measures the rate of cosmic expansion—are measured have profound implications for the future of cosmology.
When you say, “I’ll get it done this week,” you’re just lying to yourself.
We all know that work-life balance can be difficult, but do we make it harder on ourselves by how we choose to conceptualize the idea? More specifically, is the concept […]
The ultimate lesson from Dr. Birx is one we should never, ever repeat. About a year ago, as the world experienced the deadly “first wave” associated with the coronavirus pandemic, many […]
Instead of insisting that we remain “free from” government control, we should view taking vaccines and wearing masks as a “freedom to” be a moral citizen who protects the lives of others.
New research reveals that the face can affect the shape of the brain through a complex “cross-talk” between the two structures.
People often divide the world into “us” and “them” then forget about everybody else.
Enough mass in one location will always create a black hole. But not all masses are possible. If you take enough mass and compress it into a small enough volume […]
Children with pre-existing mental health issues thrived during the early phase of the pandemic.
The EmDrive turns out to be the “um…” drive after all, as a new study dubs any previous encouraging EmDrive results “false positives.”
Researchers in Singapore invented a novel device that may help the island nation illuminate its growing underground infrastructure.
Sometimes the value of soft skills feels almost secretive—like some scrap of knowledge handed down through an ancient society of corporate recruiters. Of course, that’s not the case or that’s […]
We need more and better data to know, but that’s exactly what’s coming. Over the past few decades, a number of important advances have helped revolutionize our picture of the Universe. […]
We’re cautiously optimistic about our new findings.
Our brains make snap moral decisions in mere seconds.
Researchers find that the coffee pulp is valuable in its own right.