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Disulfiram is an FDA-approved drug for the treatment of chronic alcoholism. It might also serve as anti-anxiety medication.
Fish are surprisingly good in numbers tests — a skill that sometimes makes the difference between life and death.
Presidential gravesites are spread out “democratically” — but this is more by accident than design.
People believe that slow and deliberative thinking is inherently superior to fast and intuitive thinking. The truth is more complicated.
Independent of cultural background, people seem to share a sense of what makes certain color combinations aesthetically pleasing.
If there are human-sized creatures walking around on other planets, would we be able to view them directly?
There are pros and cons to sending interstellar messages to aliens that may or may not exist.
Every timekeeping device works via a version of a pendulum — even the atomic clocks that are accurate to nanoseconds.
A toxicological study shows that the victims of human sacrifice consumed coca leaves and ayahuasca before they were killed, but not for reasons we originally thought.
Two types of nanotechnology, metalenses and metamaterials, could soon make Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak a reality.
What responsibility do social media companies like Twitter have to free speech? It depends on whether they are “landlords” or “publishers.”
Some question the ethics of sanctions aimed at cancelling Russian art and culture and punishing ordinary citizens.
Singularities frustrate our understanding. But behind every singularity in physics hides a secret door to a new understanding of the world.
Morbid fatality statistics on digital highway signs seem to distract drivers, thus increasing the number of car crashes.
It didn’t look like anything I’d seen before, but I’d be a great fool to consider “aliens” as a reasonable possibility.
Today, we could use Big Data to radically reform democracy. Tomorrow, we could build nanofabricators and usher in an era of abundance. Is society ready?
Nanofabricators could quickly synthesize whatever we need, molecule by molecule.
Volcanic activity caused the end-Triassic mass extinction 200 million years ago. The dinosaurs survived and rose to dominance.
We take for granted that time is real. But what if it’s only an illusion, and a relative illusion at that? Does time even exist?
Elon Musk’s successful bid to take over Twitter has fragmented the internet along predictably partisan lines. But only time will tell whether this is a good or bad thing.
There is strong evidence that invertebrates are sentient beings.
It may depend on whether you’re an “easily empathetically embarrassed” person.
People underestimate their opponent’s capacity to feel basic human sensations. We can short-circuit this impulse through moral reframing and perspective taking.
The metaverse may leave us perpetually unsure whether the people we encounter are authentic or high-quality fakes.
When the Hubble Space Telescope first launched in 1990, there was so much we didn’t know. Here’s how far we’ve come.
Spin, spin, spin — fire! The startup’s radical system could make satellite launches cheaper and cleaner.
Majoring in economics can boost a graduate’s early-career income by several thousand dollars, at least for those who live in California.
Shoving platelet-rich plasma up your nose might restore your sense of smell after COVID. But whether it actually works still needs to be sniffed out.
