It started with a bang, but won't end with one. Instead, it will "rage against the dying of the light" like nothing you've ever imagined.
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Distinguishing fact from fiction can be tough, especially when it comes to people as controversial as Stalin.
Neuroscience suggests that it's way better to give than to receive — and high performing people agree.
A study involving nearly 2,000 people found links between personality traits and the likelihood of moving toward or away from dementia.
We will become billions of people who share a single vast intellect.
Physicists just can't leave an incomplete theory alone; they try to repair it. When nature is kind, it can lead to a major breakthrough.
Yes, "the laws of physics break down" at singularities. But something really weird must have happened for black holes to not possess them.
There are plenty of life-friendly stellar systems in the Universe today. But at some point in the far future, life's final extinction will occur.
People usually think about the military when they talk about trauma. But for every soldier who gets PTSD in a war zone, there’s at least 30 children who get traumatized […]
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The emergence of life in the universe is as certain as the emergence of matter, gravity, and the stars. Life is the universe developing a memory, and our chemical detection system could find it.
When the mutual relatives of two royal families died, the countries were likelier to go to war.
The Earth that exists today wasn't formed simultaneously with the Sun and the other planets. In some ways, we're quite a latecomer.
Inside the “out there” quest for a drug that would help doctors save lives before it’s too late.
It's not about particle-antiparticle pairs falling into or escaping from a black hole. A deeper explanation alters our view of reality.
The long-standing debate over whether dinosaurs were more like birds or lizards is drawing to a close.
There are a few clues that the Universe isn't completely adding up. Even so, the standard model of cosmology holds up stronger than ever.
Most people have a distorted view of what being a scientist is like. Scientists need to make a greater effort to challenge stereotypes.
Get rid of the notion that the best employees come from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.
Large language models are an impressive advance in AI, but we are far away from achieving human-level capabilities.
In just a few seconds, a gamma-ray burst blasts out the same amount of energy that the Sun will radiate throughout its entire life.
Cross-disciplinary cooperation is needed to save civilization.
There are pros and cons to sending interstellar messages to aliens that may or may not exist.
For better teamwork, take a lesson from research into soccer fans who put aside their tribalism.
Utopia is like a John Lennon song but with golden toilets.
Journalists, doctors, and others you should know.
Did you know that shifting to a positive perspective on aging can add 7.5 years to your life? Or that there is a provable U-curve of happiness that shows people get happier after age 50?
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge" is often taken to mean that your conceptions outweigh what's real. That's not what he said.
In general relativity, matter and energy curve spacetime, which we experience as gravity. Why can't there be an "antigravity" force?
Math can explain why your laces spontaneously come untied — and how to stop it.
Moral dilemmas reveal the limitations of ethical principles. Oddly, the most principled belief system might not have any principles at all.