IFLS might be fun for the armchair enthusiast, but couldn’t you have at least consulted an expert? “You were always a good officer. Until you weren’t.”–Saru, from Star Trek: Discovery With […]
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It’s illegal, yet usually a subconscious act. So how can we scrub bias from the hiring process?
If it proves true, it could heal the rift between quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity.
One of inflation’s co-founders lashes out against the community. But is there a scientific leg to stand on? “…an understanding of the infinite tree of universes seems to be needed in […]
There are millions of unexploded landmines around the world, killing civilians and military personnel every month.
A new nonprofit organization aims to elect more scientists to the U.S government.
Team leaders often think about ways they can increase motivation – but little thought goes into how they might be killing it.
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The red planet once wasn’t so different from Earth. Here’s what happened. “Mars’ atmosphere is so thin, you do not need a lot of streamlining. By the time the ship […]
It’s the most fundamental fabric of the Universe itself. But how does it work? “‘Space-time’ — that hideous hybrid whose very hyphen looks phoney.” –Vladimir Nabokov When it comes to understanding the Universe, there […]
If you think we’ve seen all there is to see in the Universe, you’re about to have your imagination unlocked. “Hubble often takes images of distant gravitationally lensed galaxies to […]
So far, 549 separate paraphilias have been officially identified.
A ban on fast food would save multitudes more than the travel ban ever could.
Natural “narrative selection” was key to turning insignificant apes (who had tools for 2 million years) into the species that now dominates the bio-sphere.
Researchers plan on making human cells resistant to infection, radiation, and even cancer.
A huge landslide and tsunami no one witnessed may foreshadow many more to come in the aftermath of climate change.
For nearly 50 years, a charred lump of Dead Sea Scrolls has been sitting in a lab, too brittle to unroll. Now it’s been virtually unwrapped using 3D technology, and the contents are intriguingly – and significantly – petty.
One day, we might be able to say that the dog saved the cheetah from extinction.
Your Internet Service Providers are collecting and selling your browsing history. Does that bother you? If so, it may be time to setup a Virtual Private Network (VPN) to better encrypt your data and spoof your location.
Diabetes, certain forms of cancer, and other conditions may also be inhibited.
You don’t have to detect a particle to know that dark matter is real. “You may hate gravity, but gravity doesn’t care.” –Clayton Christensen In the 1970s, Vera Rubin’s observations showed […]
The environmental legacy of this generally disgraced President is second to none.
How easily grossed out are you? Your sensitivity to disgust reveals more about you than you’d probably be comfortable with, from how you’ll vote in this election to your potential to be a cold-blooded killer.
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With a whole-planet comparison, you’d never confuse the two worlds. But from their surfaces, telling them apart is harder than you’d think. Image credit: NASA. Think you can tell the red […]
131,000 people in the United States wait for an organ donation every single day. 10% of them will get one – unless we allow organ donations from drug deaths.
Scientists discover that up to 47% of chromosomes isn’t chromatins after all.
“The most important, obvious realities are often the ones that are the hardest to see.”
Five hundred years after the Reformation, a new book on Martin Luther reminds us how long the notion of a soul has influenced our lives.
A study finds that just 30 minutes of memory training per day, for 40 days, can reorganize your brain connectivity.
And when you demand ‘perfectly identical,’ just how high of a bar are you setting? “Lives are snowflakes — unique in detail, forming patterns we have seen before, but as like one another […]
It’s not that the brain is a quantum computer, but that we can use quantum theory to explain it.