We don’t understand why loneliness is bad for us if all we can say is that it hurts.
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On New Year’s Eve 1899, the captain of this Pacific steamliner sailed into history. Or did he?
In his new book, “Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy,” former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang explores how media narratives can warp public perception of political candidates.
But does Amazon know when you’re tired or hungry?
Wander into the deep recesses of the mind and never return the same with these existentialist books.
Mary Toft staged an elaborate hoax, but the pain was real.
Impossible standards and poor self-understanding are making us miserable.
Books that were rarely taught in 1963, when baby boomers were students, became classics when those same boomers were teachers and parents.
Hidden variables aren’t ruled out, but they can’t get rid of quantum weirdness. Ever since the discovery of the bizarre behavior of quantum systems, we’ve been forced to reckon with […]
Technique may enable speedy, on-demand design of softer, safer neural devices.
A thought experiment from 1867 leads scientists to design a groundbreaking information engine.
An enormous amount of antimatter is coming from our galactic center. But the culprit probably isn’t dark matter, but merely neutron stars.
Was our distant ancestor a biped or not – i.e., human or not human?
We only detected our very first gravitational wave in 2015. Over the next two decades, we’ll have thousands more.
Can a shared language promote peace? Some people think so.
Time for a status check before watching “Moon Knight.”
Harvard psychiatrist Robert Waldinger discusses how 80 years of ongoing research show relationships to be vital for health and happiness.
Spiritual experiences can be explained in terms of a highly evolved brain. But they also can be extremely meaningful.
Whether you write it 6/28 or 28/6, it’s perfection either way. Perfection might be a wonderful thing to strive for in life, but achieving it is very rare. In the realm […]
The East India Company issued stocks to minimize the risk on their unpredictable but highly lucrative voyages. The rest is history.
The rarest stars in the Universe are the ones we need the most to make humanity possible. Like everything in the Universe, stars are born, they live a little while, […]
The highest-energy particles of all come from space, not human-made colliders. When it comes to the most energetic particle collisions of all, you might think that the Large Hadron Collider […]
Planets can be Earth-like or Neptune-like, but only rarely are in between. This hot, Saturn-like planet hints at a solution to this puzzle.
Finding it at all was a happy accident. Examining it further may help unlock the secrets hiding within the earliest galaxies of all.
The relationship between these two ways of thinking about the world deserves deeper exploration.
Murmurations have no leader and follow no plan.
Venus Life Finder could launch as early as 2023.
Galaxies can have regions both hotter and colder than the background radiation of the Universe. When we talk about the depths of space, we get this picture in our heads […]
The first stars took tens or even hundreds of millions of years to form, and then died in the cosmic blink of an eye. Here’s how.
It’s common knowledge that syncing your circadian rhythm to a natural light-dark cycle could improve your health and well-being.