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Quantum physics is starting to show up in unexpected places. Indeed, it is at work in animals, plants, and our own bodies.
Don’t worry that your dog’s world is visually drab.
A new online religion is spreading misinformation and phony products.
When you combine the Uncertainty Principle with Einstein’s famous equation, you get a mind-blowing result: Particles can come from nothing.
Cognitive psychologist and poet Keith Holyoak explores whether artificial intelligence could ever achieve poetic authenticity.
In scientific theories, the Multiverse appears as a bug rather than as a feature. We should squash it.
Each year, several trillion pounds of microscopic silicon-based skeletons fall down the water column to pile up into siliceous ooze.
Meet the masterful con-men who impressed the great and the good despite the astonishing fiction of their very existence.
Self-help often distills philosophical ideas for the modern ear. Sometimes, its better to go back to the source.
When we feel sick, it’s not just the pathogen to blame. Our brain cranks up the temperature, and the neurons responsible finally have been found.
Many animals engage in “zoopharmacognosy” or self-medication.
Rejecting romanticism, these famous paintings depict war as it really is: sadistic and senseless.
Communication among cetaceans, like whales and dolphins, looks especially promising.
In a remarkably similar way, conspiracy theories around the world cast doubt on the existence of real places.
In his new book, “The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power,” Jacob Helberg outlines the brewing cyberwar between Western democracies and autocracies like China and Russia.
Evolution repeatedly hit upon this solution simply because it works.
Researchers are finding signs of multiple phases of sleep all over the animal kingdom. The ‘active’ sleep phases look very much like REM.
Invisible cloaks. Ghost imaging. Scientists are manipulating light in ways that were once only science fiction.
Democratic freedom, rapturous religion, and newspapers created a hotbed for social experimentation in 19th-century America.
As wind power grows around the world, so does the threat the turbines pose to wildlife. From simple fixes to high-tech solutions, new approaches can help.
A new AI lie detector can dive into their hidden thoughts and reveal “what language models truly believe about the world.”
About 8% of our genome is made of leftover viruses from our ancestors’ infections.
The acceptance of our cosmic loneliness and the rarity of our planet is a wakeup call.
To Einstein, nature had to be rational. But quantum physics showed us that there was not always a way to make it so.
The Kalam cosmological argument asserts that everything that exists has a cause, and what caused the Universe? It’s got to be God.
“All moments past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.”
We often laugh at inappropriate things, but not when we are emotionally invested. Laughter cannot be serious. So, can we ever laugh at death?
An upstart third party is unlikely to dislodge the status quo in the current system.