There are so many problems, all across planet Earth, that harm and threaten humanity. Why invest in researching the Universe?
Your subjective experience might not end the moment your heart stops, research on near-death experiences suggests.
Lasers are all around you. This ubiquitous technology came from our understanding of quantum physics.
A new study shows that political partisans are more likely to remember things that didn’t happen — as long as it fits their narrative.
A new bridge joins a divided Croatia, but it cuts Bosnia out of Europe — literally and figuratively. A bridge meant to unite also divides.
Ever since the start of the hot Big Bang, time ticks forward as the Universe expands. But could time ever run backward, instead?
Searching for dark matter, the XENON collaboration found absolutely nothing out of the ordinary. Here’s why that’s an extraordinary feat.
A second Enlightenment would have a far bigger task: Saving civilization itself.
Proponents of transhumanism make big promises, such as a future in which we upload our minds into a supercomputer. But there is a fatal flaw in this argument: reductionism.
Escape a mental rut by using nostalgia.
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Patients with amygdala damage rejected the widely accepted answer to the infamous “trolley problem,” saying that it “hurts too much.”
Turning off a gene called “Myc” has a surprising effect in male fruit flies: They start courting other males.
For over three decades, toxic proteins were believed to cause Alzheimer’s disease. However, recent studies suggest it might be metabolic reprogramming.
It might be good for your memory.
Quantum communication offers a surer path to sending an interstellar message, as well as receiving one. But can we do it?
“Supernatural thinking is actually an important part of being a complete human being.”
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Swiss Enlightenment philosopher who praised a simple life and inspired the worst of the French Revolution.
Music and sounds only seem to reduce pain in mice when played at a specific volume.
Using data collected from ancient civilizations across the world, researchers identified the most significant factors in human development. War came out on top.
More than 150 companies are developing flying cars. Here’s why they’re aren’t yet off the ground and darting across city skies.
the human brain remains highly responsive to sound during sleep, but it does not receive feedback from higher order areas — sort of like an orchestra with “the conductor missing.”
The world is aging, and with age comes vision decline. New research may have found how to improve eyesight in an accessible way.
More humans are being born with a third arm artery, an example of microevolution happening right before our eyes.
Rituals come as much from religion as they do from the way Earth spins around the Sun.
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Even though the leftover glow from the Big Bang creates a bath of radiation at only 2.725 K, some places in the Universe get even colder.
From Amazon to the US Army, everybody wants one (or 150).
We live in a four-dimensional Universe, where matter and energy curve the fabric of spacetime. But time sure is different from space!
NicoBoard is an app that helps parents make sense of a frightening time.
Where do you place precious brain resources?
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