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Middle America is tired of those latte-sipping liberals and their "elite media" hanging out in New York City, but Ariel Levy makes the case that Americans aren't as different from one another as they'd like to think.
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Neuroscientists discover networks of neurons that stretch or compress their activity to control timing Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Timing is critical for playing a musical instrument, swinging a […]
A team of researchers reverses the arrow of time in quantum experiments.
Researchers create a new form of matter, first theorized 50 years ago.
You are going to die. So am I. These are facts.
A groundbreaking experiment proves a key tenet of Einstein's theory of gravity.
If you've ever wondered which part of physics covers which part of space, fret no more. Here is an awesome map that lays it all out.
This polymath's papers—full of personal and scientific revelations—have joined the World Register.
Edward Witten is a genius among geniuses.
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The Flat Earth theory has gained a surprising amount of traction in recent years, thanks largely to YouTube. What exactly do Flat Earthers believe?
This remarkable breakthrough is sure to usher in a new generation of robots.
For the first time, an object from outside our solar system is observed traveling through our neighborhood.
One type of dog in particular is linked with the lowest rates of cardiovascular disease in their human pals.
Is consciousness everywhere? Is it a basic feature of the Universe, at the very heart of the tiniest subatomic particles? Such an idea – panpsychism as it is known – […]
"The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think," Albert Einstein said. So go back to school, Ivy League style.
The US is arguably the most scientifically and technologically advanced society in the world, and yet at the same time the most religious of Western societies.
The idea may have started as a joke, but it’s getting more and more serious.
Thousands of scientists from 184 countries have endorsed an open letter that outlines some of the Earth's most pressing environmental problems.
Scientists didn’t know why the sleep deprived experienced cognitive lapses, until now.
Wow. Reading Hawking's Ph.D. paper is like listening to Pink Floyd for decades and then suddenly finding out they had a different and even more groundbreaking debut album.
One prominent mathematician asks: was Einstein such a smartypants after all?
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Astrobiologists took a novel view and used evolutionary processes as their guide.
Scientists work out methods for finding the difference between the magnetic moments of protons and antiprotons and see that they’re the same.
The establishment of a colony on Mars seems inevitable given just how many groups are drawing up plans for the red planet. NASA intends on sending manned expeditions in the […]
It's more accurate than an atomic clock, and would take thousands of years to lose a second.
Cosmic collision yields bullion by the billions.
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80% of adults are overly optimistic about life—where does that cognitive bias come from?
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Is science destined to crack the code of consciousness—and how would we even go about it?
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New studies shed light on how Neanderthal DNA is affecting the appearance and behavior of modern humans.