Unless you confront your theory with what’s actually out there in the Universe, you’re playing in the sandbox, not engaging in science.
Hint: They hold off on talking about their alien god until much later.
The Black, Caspian, and Aral Seas are the last surviving fragments of a body of water that stretched from Austria to Turkmenistan.
Democratic freedom, rapturous religion, and newspapers created a hotbed for social experimentation in 19th-century America.
Stoicism is a big deal right now, but it has some major flaws. Here’s why you might want to hold off on becoming a Stoic.
JWST’s revolutionary views arrive in high-resolution at infrared wavelengths. Without NASA’s Spitzer first, it wouldn’t have been possible.
It may be an advantage in some contexts.
Using shaped ultrasound, researchers can 3D print objects in one shot.
A productivity expert explains how you can be creative and a powerhouse of productivity.
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Baby mice can regenerate damaged hair cells — and now that we know how they do it, maybe we can, too.
Would you want to live in any of these places?
The Fermi paradox (along with the subsequent Drake equation) is so difficult that even brilliant thinkers can make little dent in it.
Intellectual humility demands that we examine our motivations for holding certain beliefs.
Are you a video gaming master? Put it on your résumé.
A thesaurus isn’t to find big and fancy words, but a resource to help you find your rhythm.
Your brain on sex, love, and rejection with biological anthropologist Helen Fisher.
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Dark energy is one of the biggest mysteries in all the Universe. Is there some way to avoid “having to live with it?”
Money shame is more common than you might think.
Though ultimately incorrect, the ancient Greek philosophers blazed a conceptual trail for humankind to understand the nature of reality.
Gum disease begins in the mouth but spreads to the joints. Rheumatoid arthritis is just one of several diseases linked to poor oral health.
Protons and neutrons are held together by the strong force: with 3 colors and 3 anticolors. So why are there only 8 gluons, and not 9?
Two populations that are geographically separated today once mated a very long time ago.
Economist Tyler Cowen explains why intelligence is overrated. Here’s what to look for instead.
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Some of them have survived the wilds of space for billions of years.
Nobel Laureate Roger Penrose, famed for his work on black holes, claims we’ve seen evidence from a prior Universe. Only, we haven’t.
Everyone loves a good underdog story, but the lessons we derive from them depend on how they’re told.
If a court needs to know if two trademarks look too similar to each other, perhaps the jury should be given a brain scan.
Telegrams were the “Twitter of the 1850s and 1860s” — and they elicited the exact same overblown fears as Twitter does today.