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If there are three neutrino species, all with different masses, then how is energy conserved when they oscillate from one flavor to another?
The crisis of the Anthropocene challenges our traditional narratives and myths about humanity’s place in the world. Citizen science can help.
There will always be “wolf-criers” whose claims wither under scrutiny. But aliens are certainly out there, if science dares to find them.
Thought expriments are great tools, but do they always do what we want them to?
Talent wants to be free — but a safe company culture puts “the maze in the mouse” and shackles progress.
Research shows that those who spend more time speaking tend to emerge as the leaders of groups, regardless of their intelligence.
Empty, intergalactic space is just 2.725 K: not even three degrees above absolute zero. But the Boomerang Nebula is even colder.
Where did the “seed” magnetic field come from in the first place?
Try this: It’s about 10 times the number of cups of water in all the oceans of Earth.
Think of the nicest person you know. The person who would fit into any group configuration, who no one can dislike, or who makes a room warmer and happier just […]
Most exoplanets have been found around single stars via the transit method. But binary star systems might contain even more of them.
A new study bases its calculations on more than the great white shark.
Scientific pluralism is the notion that some questions must be approached from many angles. How can we integrate these scientific models?
No. But Buddhism and quantum mechanics have much to teach each other.
The quadratic formula isn’t just something that teachers use to torture algebra students. The Babylonians once used it to calculate taxes.
The first personality tests revolved around assessing people’s reactions to ambiguous and often unsettling images. Today, the gold standard is a barrage of questions.
Our ancestral cousins far more intelligent than we credit them for, and they did things most of us cannot.
Every December, the Geminid meteor shower reaches its peak. Its 2021 show will be spectacular, but only if you do it right.
What does it mean to “lead without authority”?
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All matter particles can act as waves, and massless light waves show particle-like behavior. Can gravitational waves also be particle-like?
Just a small gesture or a thoughtful comment can often alter a situation, or people’s perceptions of it, in ways that relieve tensions and make them feel appreciated and included.
One bill hopes to repeal the crime of selling sex and expand social services; the other would legalize the entire sex trade.
The mediocrity principle is often used to make claims about the abundance of life across the universe, but these claims are likely unfounded.
A next-generation instrument on a delayed rover may be the key to answering the question of life on Mars.
Democritus also did not believe in free will but was still known as the “laughing philosopher.”
A wild, compelling idea without a direct, practical test, the Multiverse is highly controversial. But its supporting pillars sure are stable.
Crows have their own version of the human cerebral cortex.
Preferring “bases not places,” the U.S. does not really resemble the empires of old.
This everyday electrical phenomenon had no widely accepted scientific explanation — perhaps, until now.