There are some undeniable parallels between Jewish history and the Big Blue Boy Scout.
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It’s one factor that can help explain the religiosity gap.
Jim Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz just won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics. It couldn’t be more well-deserved. Every year, the Nobel Prize reminds all of humanity to […]
A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration likely violated the reporter’s Fifth Amendment rights when it stripped his press credentials earlier this month.
What should a black hole look like? Our theoretical predictions are about to meet our first observations. In science, there’s no moment more exciting than when you get to confront […]
Talking about climate change doesn’t have to be an argument over Thanksgiving dinner. Some people, though maybe not all, can be persuaded.
Australia’s two largest supermarkets led the ban, which has so far prevented some 1.5 billion plastic bags from entering the environment.
In McMindfulness, Ronald Purser says modern mindfulness is dictated more by market forces than ethics.
In General Relativity, even space and time themselves aren’t what they seem. Gravity might have been the first fundamental force ever discovered, but in many ways, it remains the least-well understood. […]
On Tuesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the U.S. will withdraw from the 1987 agreement unless Russia falls back into compliance.
There’s a high social cost that comes with lighting up.
You’d be amazed at what you can learn from even one single pixel. Over the past decade, owing largely to NASA’s Kepler mission, our knowledge of planets around star systems beyond […]
Future or extraterrestrial civilizations could create megastructures the size of a solar system.
Despite being free to users, Facebook seems to have a monopoly on our speech, our data, and our lives.
No matter what Martin Rees or anyone else says, physics dictates that the world is safe. The Large Hadron Collider is the world’s most powerful particle accelerator. An aerial view of […]
Hubble, even at its best, only reveals perhaps 10% of what’s out there. Here’s how we get the rest. When you gaze up at the night sky, through the veil of […]
Matter from the first few microseconds after the Big Bang.
Writer and director Judd Apatow, one of several high-profile artists that threatened to drop out of the festival, said he wouldn’t participate in an event that “normalizes hate.”
A new review article makes the case that you can always use it.
Theoretical work tells you where to look, but only experiments can reveal what you’ll find. There are fundamental mysteries out there about the nature of the Universe itself, and it’s our […]
How can we use the resources that are already on the Moon to make human exploration of the satellite as economical as possible?
How much does cognitive bias change people’s perception? Well, the history of computing would be a lot different.
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Sunken nuclear submarines and covert operations against the Soviet Union eventually led to Titanic’s discovery.
It’s hard to imagine such a number. But these images will help you try.
A new study flies in the face of anecdotal evidence and raises questions about how we read data.
The Canadian professor calls for personal responsibility over legislation.
The vast emptiness of space isn’t really so empty: It’s filled with space goop made of greasy carbon molecules.
It takes an average of 7.5 months to build a single-family home. A Ukrainian startup has cut that timeframe down to just 8 hours.
A new report outlines how the CIA considered using a drug called Versed on detainees in the years following 9/11.