A brief look at the six-decade challenge to psychiatry.
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Tough and cutthroat leaders are celebrated in a results-driven culture — but there is another path to C-suite success.
An evolutionary biologist explains why you probably won’t grow a tail.
If cocaine affects sharks at all, it does so as an anesthetic, not as a stimulant.
How humans came to feel comfortable among strangers, like those in a café, is an under-explored mystery.
The topical gene therapy could one day help millions regain their vision.
A unique star system where exoplanets orbit their star backwards located by researchers.
As with any “big idea” progress means a lot of different things to different people and not everyone comes into the discussion with the same priors. Some experts are primarily focused on material progress while others emphasize the importance of moral progress. So to start the discussion, we asked each expert to define the term as they see it from their specific vantage point.
Some say that the Sun is a green-yellow color, but our human eyes see it as white, or yellow-to-red during sunset. What color is it really?
In general relativity, white holes are just as mathematically plausible as black holes. Black holes are real; what about white holes?
Are you unhappy with how various events in your life turned out? Perhaps, in a parallel Universe, things worked out very differently.
Six visionary science fiction authors on the social impact of their work.
Is the Universe finite or infinite? Does it go on forever or loop back on itself? Here’s what would happen if you traveled forever.
Back in 1990, we hadn’t discovered a single planet outside of our Solar System. Here are 10 facts that would’ve surprised every astronomer.
Executive presence training can help leaders learn how to better support their people, become more self aware, communicate effectively, and more.
The double-slit experiment, hundreds of years after it was first performed, still holds the key mystery at the heart of quantum physics.
On the morning of June 30, 1908, an explosion of more than 10 megatons occurred above the sparsely populated Siberian Taiga. What caused the so-called Tunguska event?
It’s called the “hipster effect,” and a study from Brandeis University mathematician Jonathan Touboul explains how it happens.
The question of why the Universe is the way it is is an ancient one, and none of the answers we have come up with are satisfying.
Mahāyāna is the most popular type of Buddhism in the world today.
With the discovery of Porphyrion, we’ve now seen black hole jets spanning 24 million light-years: the scale of the cosmic web.
The digital world will always entail risks for teens, but that doesn’t mean parents aren’t without recourse.
The science fiction dream of a traversable wormhole is no closer to reality, despite a quantum computer’s suggestive simulation.
There is one obstacle that reliably blocks innovative ideas: how we fund science.
Forget these scientific myths to better understand your brain and yourself.
Two scientists recently wagered a bottle of whiskey. The bet? Whether we’ll find evidence of advanced extraterrestrial life in the next 15 years.
The Bullet Cluster has, for nearly 20 years, been hailed as an empirical “proof” of dark matter. Can their detractors explain it away?
Almost 100 years ago, an asymmetric pathology led Dirac to postulate the positron. A similar pathology could lead us to supersymmetry.
In “Life As No One Knows It,” Sara Imari Walker explains why the key distinction between life and other kinds of “things” is how life uses information.
The great hope is that beyond the indirect, astrophysical evidence we have today, we’ll someday detect it directly. But what if we can’t?