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Conspiracy theorising may be a symptom of a breakdown of trust in institutions like the government and the media.
A study published in Applied Cognitive Psychology suggests that believers struggle to understand the physical world.
Is it a super-secret place for the global el33t? Or is it just a bunch of n00bs masquerading as true h4x0rs?
Researchers believe that the practice of sleeping through the whole night didn’t really take hold until just a few hundred years ago.
A very clever idea says there’s a ninth Solar System planet, larger than Earth, far beyond Neptune. Here’s why most scientists think it’s not real. It’s been nearly three years since […]
Using a machine-learning system known as a deep neural network, MIT researchers have created the first model that can identify a musical genre just like a human would.
Granted, genetic manipulation has been a dream for decades. Here’s what is different now.
A company specializing in A.I. medicine will tell you how long you’re likely to live.
After Beyoncé’s landmark Coachella performance, a look back at the biggest musical stars ever. It’s impossible to pick just one as the biggest, but fun to try.
A new study highlights how blockchain technology can be a game-changer in education.
Survivors of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida are demanding that lawmakers in Washington take action on gun control measures.
Trying to understand California aflame.
Being too optimistic can have real drawbacks, according to a new study that looks at expectations of life that are not grounded in reality.
A phonetic map to help Warsaw Pact soldiers find their way around the Home Counties
When we place the known objects in the Solar System in order, four inner, rocky worlds and four, outer, giant worlds stand out. Traditionally, these were defined as planets. Will […]
Elon Musk is without doubt one of the great visionaries of our age. But how did he get there?
If everything goes right, astronomy will take a magnificent leap into the future. But here’s what needs to happen first. Back in 2000, NASA held their decadal survey, choosing what would […]
The idea may have started as a joke, but it’s getting more and more serious.
When you’re confronted by some new information, how do you tell whether it’s valid or not? “I’m old enough to remember when the polio vaccine was still new. Also, it hadn’t […]
“My theory is true, if I do say so myself.” SPOT stands for “Spontaneous Preference For Own Theories,” and it’s a newly identified cognitive bias.
Music is our oldest and most cherished ritual. How we treat it is reflective of who we are.
Karl Popper’s ‘paradox of tolerance’ has been reemerging, for good reason.
Get ready for a decade of scientific revelations. Thanks to gravity waves, we have a completely new way to explore the universe.
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Men are barbarians, while women are civilizing. Or at least, that’s how the stereotype goes.
It was the first time the bomb was deployed in battle, which has the dubious distinction of being the biggest non-nuclear bomb in the American military arsenal.
What happens up there directly affects life down here. From star-gazing to quantum mechanics, astronomy is one of humanity’s great thruster engines of innovation.
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Among other things, researchers found that there are two subgroups of the Alt-Right, but that the more economically motivated members may buy into White Supremacy over time.
Just a few simple, common conditions can create the perfect storm. 80% of the time, humans are the trigger. “I’d rather fight 100 structure fires than a wildfire. With a structure […]
Experts assess what would happen if the U.S. and North Korea go to war.