Inside the metaverse, your emotions and physical responses will be monitored, and AI will use that data to influence you in real time. Is that essentially mind control?
Most exoplanets have been found around single stars via the transit method. But binary star systems might contain even more of them.
Inspired by the shape of a New Caledonian crow’s beak, researchers created a new 3D-printed prototype of tweezers.
All American and European eels originate in the same place.
‘Flow state’ is a peak performance mental state experienced by the world’s highest achievers. Learn how it works in just 7 minutes.
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Satanic cultists don’t even believe the Devil exists. Satanism is largely a religion focused on secular humanism and hedonism.
Early relics and late-time objects give incompatible results for the expanding Universe. This independent anomaly intensifies the problem.
Balancing realism and optimism in a dire situation is a key to success.
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There are 38 kinds of secrets. The average person has 13 at any given moment. Michael Slepian explains how that can affect your health.
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More than any other nation, Japan tends to feel comfortable with the idea of humanoid robots entering the home.
Like his “Mona Lisa,” Leonardo da Vinci’s “Lady with an Ermine” depicts a woman in a way that flouted the conventions of its time.
Oxytocin can boost heart cells’ ability to regenerate.
Something doesn’t add up.
The media is deliberately pushing your buttons.
“Conflict is useful. The question is how do you deal with conflict effectively.”
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Quantum entanglement may remain spooky, but it has a very practical side.
Practically all of the matter we see and interact with is made of atoms, which are mostly empty space. Then why is reality so… solid?
“Even with my training, I still got insights from the book’s descriptions. That’s how good Carroll is at explaining physics.”
More than half of Americans feel anxious over their financial situation.
From Aristotle’s lazy cosmology to Immanuel Kant’s “scientific” racism, great minds are not immune to very bad ideas.
Are you unhappy with how various events in your life turned out? Perhaps, in a parallel Universe, things worked out very differently.
How much can something change and still be the same thing?
Do we still remember what we learned in the 1940s?
How many tins of beans make a stockpile, and when does a basement become a bunker?
Today’s careers don’t offer a clear path forward, but the rewards can be worth more than a gold watch at retirement.
The Universe gravitates so that normal matter and General Relativity alone can’t explain it. Here’s why dark matter beats modified gravity.
Instead of worshipping Yahweh, the devotees were perhaps dedicated to Mars and Jupiter.