Philosopher and logician Kurt Gödel upended our understanding of mathematics and truth.
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Can we stop a rogue AI by teaching it ethics? That might be easier said than done.
Could a theory from the science of perception help crack the mysteries of psychosis?
Evidence shows that information is transmitted via “complex contagion.”
Nietzsche both wished he was as stupid as a cow so he wouldn’t have to contemplate existence, and pitied cows for being so stupid that they couldn’t contemplate existence.
We only detected our very first gravitational wave in 2015. Over the next two decades, we'll have thousands more.
Exploring how a small change in your DNA sequence can make you a natural blonde.
75 years after Erwin Schrödinger's prescient description of something like DNA, we still don't know the "laws of life."
Remember Stephen Hawking's robotic voice? It wasn’t a robot.
It occurred naturally, and scientists know this for certain. Starting in late 2019, a novel strain of coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, began infecting human beings for the very first time. Discovered in samples […]
Scott Dikkers discusses comedy, the creative process, and life lessons learned playing peekaboo.
On larger and larger scales, many of the same structures we see at small ones repeat themselves. Do we live in a fractal Universe?
Positive, romantic thoughts could produce positive, romantic outcomes while dating.
Argentina's black market for cash is embracing crypto — but it's not what crypto proponents expected.
The Standard Model and General Relativity can’t be all there is. But how will we discover what lies beyond them? One of the biggest problems with physics is that, apart from […]
Could this finally be the clue we’ve hoped for in uncovering the truth about dark matter? In the physical sciences, theory and observation are supposed to work hand-in-hand. Theorists work out […]
The program aims to notify people after they've come in close contact with someone who tested positive.
Two Williams pioneered geological mapping in Britain and the United States - but the world only remembers one.
Galaxies can have regions both hotter and colder than the background radiation of the Universe. When we talk about the depths of space, we get this picture in our heads […]
With radio and X-ray data combined, we’re understanding how energy flows like never before. When we look out at the Universe on the largest cosmic scales of all, gravity is the […]
A new study at UPenn found that effective learning includes mistakes—just not too many.
There are many things on large scales that also appear on small scales. But is the Universe truly a fractal? If you take a look at the structures that form in […]
The inventor Nikola Tesla's esoteric beliefs included unusual theories about the Egyptian pyramids.
We have been rejecting science for far too long. We all need to embrace it. For as long as human civilization has existed, those societies that have embraced science have had […]
We’re still not sure what the ultimate question is. Here are 5 excellent candidates. One of the most amusing stories in all of science fiction is Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s […]
Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a well-known model of human development, but Maslow's friend and colleague Kazimierz Dąbrowski believed humans developed in a different way.
Upstreamism advocate Rishi Manchanda calls us to understand health not as a "personal responsibility" but a "common good."