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What explains our propensity to blame the victim, even in cases of sexual assault and rape? A true story of sexual crime in America reveals some key misunderstandings we may all hold.
A machine learning algorithm has shown it can discover planets from weak signals overlooked in the Kepler spacecraft’s database.
New studies shed light on how Neanderthal DNA is affecting the appearance and behavior of modern humans.
U.S. Congress heard expert testimony on a potentially devastating military threat from North Korea.
A college professor used YONDR pouches to stop students from accessing their smartphones.
“The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think,” Albert Einstein said. So go back to school, Ivy League style.
How relatable was Trump’s speech? To evaluate this objectively, you could look at what reading level it was at.
Chinese scientists accomplish the feat of teleporting a photon to a satellite hundreds of miles above Earth.
A new C is coming to the C-suite: The Chief Robotics Officer, or CRO. Do I hear laughter or detect an eye roll? Think again. The bots are coming. Business […]
It’s discovered thousands. But how many more are out there? “How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our mighty Designs, all our […]
On September 1, launched a $2.5 million project called “Open Exploration of Vertebrate Diversity in 3D” or as many scientists know it – the “scan-all-vertebrates” project. Sponsored by the National Science […]
The neutron star-neutron star merger was initially only seen in 1 detector out of 3. Here’s how scientists didn’t let it slip away. On August 17th, 2017, a gravitational wave event […]
Does this mean they can read your mind against your will?
In this radical view, the universe is a giant supercomputer processing particles as bits.
Cute things are usually vulnerable, fragile, and weak. But cuteness itself is mighty indeed.
Your mind is built to process contradictory, irrational ideas. Use that to reach new intellectual heights.
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Aiming for the nearest star would necessitate a whole slew of advances. Even if the mission fails, humanity wins by investing in itself. There have been some magnificent moments in NASA […]
Is life worse or better than non-existence? And if it is, who is judging? Welcome to anti-natalism, a small but lively corner of philosophy.
Neurons in the human brain produce photons, and are apparently capable of being the infrastructure for light-based communication and activity.
AI has not only beat chess, Go, and Jeopardy champions, but now it has defeated some of the world’s best poker players. And unlike chess or Go, playing poker involves unknown information like bluffing.
The most influential contemporary scientists and their accomplishments.
A new study of 46,034 brain scans suggests women’s brains are more active than men’s.
Grad students will be taxed at the highest rate in the country, even higher than billionaires. For millions of young people, the American dream is to study the thing you’re […]
The Event Horizon Telescope has come online and taken its data. Now, we wait for the results. Black holes are some of the most incredible objects in the Universe. There are […]
With quantum teleportation now occurring from Earth to satellites, how long is it before we can teleport a human being? “There would be no Star Trek unless there were transporter malfunctions.” –LeVar […]
Nothing can escape from a black hole… but could another black hole pull something out? Once you fall into the event horizon of a black hole, you can never escape. […]
A neural network was trained to create its own cookbook recipes, resulting in some strange and unappetizing concoctions.
If atmospheric hazes can cool the distant ice dwarf by an extra 30 degrees Celsius, maybe we can geoengineer a solution to our warming problem? When NASA’s New Horizons flew by […]
It’s not that the brain is a quantum computer, but that we can use quantum theory to explain it.