Eight-dimensional octonions may hold the clues to solve fundamental mysteries.
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The survey asked whether people had deleted Facebook, whether they’d pay for service, and whether they’d been using it less since the scandal broke.rn
Virtual borders have also been subtly dividing the world
For billions of years, dark energy couldn’t have been detected. Now, it’s everywhere we look. When we look out at the ultra-distant Universe, billion of light-years away, we’re seeing it as […]
You can be born with good genes and study hard and still not meet your potential. Your environment has a lot to do with how smart you are.
Cosmologists propose a groundbreaking model of the universe using string theory.
The ability to instantaneously jump from one location in space to another clearly violates the laws of physics. Or does it? There are a few rules in the Universe that seem […]
Cognitive psychologist Donald Hoffman hypothesizes we evolved to experience a collective delusion — not objective reality.
A tiny grain found within a meteorite in Antarctica sheds light on how the solar system itself came to be.
A new study re-assesses multitasking.
Unlike much of the United States, the South has a culture of honor. While this makes Southerners more polite, it’s also something of a double-edged sword.
After a landslide victory, a popular comedian with no political experience becomes Ukraine’s next president. Are comedians really the best leaders?
A consortium of scientists and engineers have proposed that the U.S. and Mexico build a series of guarded solar, wind, natural gas and desalination facilities along the entirety of the border.
One often-neglected result of climate change is ocean acidification. If this process continues, we may start to see fewer fish and more jellyfish.
Ten of the most sandbagging, red-herring, and effective logical fallacies.
The Boomerang Nebula, in our galaxy, is even colder than completely empty space. Here’s how that’s possible. Imagine the coldest place you possibly can. Inside it, the particles that make […]
Disagreements are inevitable — we all have different experiences that lead us to be who we are and to what we believe. Almost as inevitable are distrust, suspicion, and even […]
Explosives sent to addresses linked to former Vice President Joe Biden and actor Robert De Niro were similar to bombs delivered to other political figures this week, officials said.
If we were in a place like the Coma Cluster instead of the Local Group, we’d already be dead. In a living spiral galaxy, like the Milky Way, the rich gas […]
The war machine needs fuel, perhaps so much as to make protecting oil redundant.
From Godzilla to The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, it’s everywhere.
Butter supply and life satisfaction are linked — but by causation or correlation?
New research at Carnegie Mellon University suggests a game of musical chairs.
The Department of Justice has reached a settlement with Defense Distributed in a landmark decision that will enable the controversial organization to publish CAD files of firearms on its DEFCAD website.
Jamie Aten is an expert on the science of dealing with Really Bad Things.
An autistic woman, Judy Singer, coined the term ‘neurodiversity’ in her 1988 thesis as a label for the unique contribution made to the world by people whose brains are wired […]
Galaxies are found uniformly everywhere in the Universe, except in the Milky Way’s plane. Here’s why. From the time of their very first discovery, the Universe’s grand spirals have puzzled astronomers. […]
Diversity without inclusion is largely pointless. Beyond superficially satisfying some hiring metric, bringing on an employee who has little chance of thriving deprives the company of diversity’s benefit and puts […]
In cities, people tend to think of parks as dangerous.