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The answer to this question is key to understanding why anything exists.
We’ll never be able to extract any information about what’s inside a black hole’s event horizon. Here’s why a singularity is inevitable.
Terrified of blushing? You might have erythrophobia.
Bilingualism confers various mental health and social benefits. Perhaps knowing a second alphabet confers even more.
All roads may not lead to Rome, but many of them lead to wealth and prosperity — even 1,500 years after the fall of the Roman Empire.
The great hope is that beyond the indirect, astrophysical evidence we have today, we’ll someday detect it directly. But what if we can’t?
Buddhism has rules for slaying your enemies. But the real surprise is finding out who your enemies actually are.
Surely they can’t be worse…can they?
Carl Jung was one such person.
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.
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.
The genes responsible for facial features may also influence behavior.
Harmony and moderation make for a happier life.
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?
Every time our Universe cools below a critical threshold, we fall out of equilibrium. That’s the best thing that ever happened to us.
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.
Realizing that matter and energy are quantized is important, but quantum particles aren’t the full story; quantum fields are needed, too.