President Trump has placed retaliatory tariffs on the U.S.’s closest allies. His justification for this policy is national security and the protection of America’s businesses. But history has shown us that trade wars don’t put America first.
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An effort is underway in the AI community to develop posthumous avatars that can ease the pain of mourning. Not everyone thinks this is a good idea.
‘Luck’ is the wrong word. The Universe cooperated, but we gave ourselves the opportunity by being prepared. It was already 28 years ago that the Hubble Space Telescope was launched […]
A new study looks at how teens construct their online identities.
Proposers’ strategies must be successful in one of three different environments.
Not everyone is satisfied with the Big Bang. But every alternative is a disastrous failure. It’s treated as though it’s an unassailable scientific truth: 13.8 billion years ago, the Universe […]
How relatable was Trump’s speech? To evaluate this objectively, you could look at what reading level it was at.
You see a gorgeous salamander. Science sees the key to regrowing limbs, eyes, and even bones.
A questionable new study paid for by the O2 concert venue finds that going to a concert every two weeks can add nine years to your life.
Distances in the expanding Universe don’t work like you’d expect. Unless, that is, you learn to think like a cosmologist. There are a few fundamental facts about the Universe — its origin, […]
No international borders, no international order—and yet, most land borders are not very old: more than half were drawn after 1900.
We’ve been taking our eyebrows for granted. They may in fact be the thing that let us become the dominant species on Earth.
In the aftermath of everything we’ve learned about what’s in the Universe, we can make much better estimates of how many alien civilizations are out there. In 1961, scientist Frank Drake […]
The iconic physicist warns that we’d better find another planet in the next 100 years, or humanity is screwed.
The current record-holder is a doozy, and right at the limit of what Hubble can do. But there’s even more out there. The greatest advances in science often come when we […]
His book warns us of the dangers of mass media, passivity, and how even an intelligent population can be driven to gladly choose dictatorship over freedom.
Coercion requires justification. How can we justify the invisible walls of our visa policies?
These chemicals are also widely used in products like clothing, shoes, wrappers and furniture, to make them more stain-resistant, waterproof and/or nonstick.
Reality is whatever your body believes. Virtual reality knows how to hack that.
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We know that it’s ‘the red planet’ because of the iron in its soil. But why, with such a thin, carbon dioxide atmosphere, is the martian sky so red and bright? […]
Though often used interchangeably, diversity and inclusion are two very different things. Most importantly, diversity without inclusion is mostly meaningless.
There is no doubt that the historical Jesus, the man who was executed by the Roman State in the first century CE, was a brown-skinned, Middle Eastern Jew.
More and more companies are in the grip of a new phenomenon: “metric fixation.” Here’s what’s wrong with it.
It’s fascinating how an octopus’s skin does this and how these scientists recreated it.
The NASA probe to Saturn went out in a blaze of glory last week.
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600 calories or less for each Happy Meal? Well, it’s a start.
Shortly after the Big Bang, the Universe became completely dark. The first stars, when they ignited, changed everything. For perhaps 100 million years, the Universe was devoid of stars. The […]
Our brains are famously flexible, or “plastic,” because neurons can do new things by forging new or stronger connections with other neurons. But how, exactly, does it do that?
The agricultural revolution was one of the best things to happen to the human species, right? Wrong.
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When Mark Zuckerberg told Congress Facebook would use artificial intelligence to detect fake newsposted on the social media site, he wasn’t particularly specific about what that meant. Given my own […]