If the Breakthrough Starshot initiative, promoted by Stephen Hawking, works exactly as planned, it could lead to disaster. Imagine yourself on a world not so different from Earth, orbiting a […]
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In his new book, Nick Chater writes that what we see is what we get.
TMS might also help those with anxiety, PTSD, and traumatic brain injury.
The coming few years should really tell us a lot more about them.
A new study discovers the “liking gap” — the difference between how we view others we’re meeting for the first time, and the way we think they’re seeing us.
Comedy, A.I.-style. Our roving reporter, Evan Fleischer, went into The Laughing Room and here’s what happened
When it comes to optimizing your workout, breakfast might be winning again.
A new study contests the benefits of meditation in the workplace. We show everything that’s wrong with the research.
Want a happy, satisfying relationship? Psychologists say the best way is to learn to take a joke.
Designed for a 90-day mission each, dust killed the overachieving Spirit and threatens to now kill Opportunity. But it didn’t have to be this way. In 2004, NASA launched two exploration […]
Digging deeper into the mystery of the brain, soul, and consciousness.
What would it cost to move some of the world’s most famous landmarks to new locations?
If you look everywhere between the numbers 1 and 2, you’ll never find 3. Let’s say you have an idea about how our physical reality might be different from how we […]
One possible solution to the opioid epidemic is already accessible in several states, with more to come.
Rather than one layer at a time, this method creates an entire object all at once, using lasers.
For many years the concept of virtual worlds and far flung digital realities was the stuff of speculative fiction and philosophy. But it may soon take over the world.
Xenon-124 isn’t stable, and the direct detection of its decay could lead us to an even greater prize. Our Universe is old: 13.8 billion years old, to be precise. Many of […]
Chris Hughes earned nearly half a billion dollars after co-founding Facebook. Now he’s arguing for fairer wages in the form of a $500 monthly ‘social dividend’ for low- and middle-class Americans.
13.8 billion years ago, our Universe as-we-know-it came into existence. Here’s what it was like. Looking out at our Universe today, we not only see a huge variety of stars and […]
There’s a reason you’re not motivated when you smoke weed: it ruins your episodic memory.
The hallmark of a good scientist is changing your mind when new evidence arises. Here’s what that looks like. Science, like many things in life, is always a work-in-progress. While a […]
The Justice Department has long held the view that a sitting president cannot be indicted. However there is a fail-safe mechanism in the law reserved for special circumstances.
Is microdosing magic truffles a way to unlock your creative potential? That’s long been anecdotal, but the evidence is coming.
Air pollution is up to five times over the EU limit in these Central London hotspots.
Some Democrats and political analysts are calling Trump an ‘unindicted co-conspirator’ after his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, pleaded guilty to eight felonies.
The result validate Einstein on a whole new scale, and pose serious problems for alternative, modified theories of gravity. In 1915, Albert Einstein put forth a new theory of gravity: General […]
Pizza? Doughnuts? They satisfy the brain’s reward center like nothing else.
The surprisingly simple treatment could prove promising for doctors and patients seeking to treat depression without medication.