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People with aphantasia cannot conjure mental images, either original or from memory.
"In order to seek truth," Rene Descartes once wrote, "it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, all things."
A recent study highlights the astounding adaptability of the human brain.
You can learn a lot about life through literature's most unrespectable and heinous characters.
A new, unexpected brightening, just 3 years after a massive dimming event, has astronomers watching Betelgeuse. Is a supernova imminent?
“Who is the aggressor?” That depends on which of these maps you believe.
Let us share this miracle with mothers in poor countries.
The robot can drive heavy steal beams into the ground at a rate of 1 per 73 seconds, which will help expedite solar farm construction.
Despite a reputation for catastrophe and cat killings, curiosity is a beneficial drive that improves our lives and well-being.
Old coal mines can be converted into "gravity batteries" by retrofitting them with equipment that raises and lowers giant piles of sand.
Man does not live by measurement alone.
John Templeton Foundation
The Source Family, a radical 1970s utopian commune, still impacts what we eat today.
We know that everything changes, but we long for something more permanent.
De-urbanized lifestyles can be aligned with basic Taoist principles — and remote workers are starting to feel the connection.
The odds are slim, but the consequences would be literally world-ending. There really is a chance of a black hole devouring the Earth.
The problem of the electroweak horizon haunts the standard model of cosmology and beckons us to ask how deep a rethink the model may need.
One reason saving is hard: We tend to view our "future selves" as complete strangers, and our decisions in the present moment reflect that.
Million Stories
If a person stands little chance of ever being wealthy, perhaps playing the lottery is a rational decision.
"The Man in the High Castle" may be the most beloved alternate history book, but it is not the most historically accurate.
The chances that a newborn survives childhood have increased from 50% to 96% globally.