In the Western world, there’s a constant pressure to be happy. Paradoxically, this makes people more prone to anxiety and depression.
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These seven presidents had a window into the future—or were really good guessers.
A fresh take on the decades-old Drake equation incorporates new factors and greater uncertainty, suggesting a high likelihood that humanity is alone in the universe.
We’ve all heard the number: 4.5 billion years. But how do we know, and how certain are we that the Earth and Sun are the same age? Billions of years ago, […]
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Ready Player One’s spectacular VR OASIS experience has us wondering how achievable it really is and when we’ll start seeing immersive VR movies.
‘Enter the room’ is a rare case of an augmented reality app that could genuinely make the world a better place. Read our review here.
Young workers experience insufficient opportunities for work experience, a mismatch between work and education, a lack of career management skills and scant entry-level jobs.
In her book, Rise of the Necrofauna, Britt Wray reports on the ethics and science behind de-extinction.
The American public is split on whether to provide a “safety net” to workers displaced by advancements in artificial intelligence.
President Donald Trump signed a ‘right-to-try’ bill on Wednesday, but some think the new law will do more harm than good.
No more secret submarines and moon bases. A new study puts to rest decades-old conspiracy theories and confirms how Adolf Hitler died.
This study is radically changing how we view the process of evolution.
U.S. Supreme Court justices receive lifetime appointments to the bench, but many wonder if indefinite terms do more harm to our legal system than good.
A new year. A new chance to make it big in the hyper-competitive field of commentary. Will you make the cut this week and get plucked from our 2 million Facebook followers?
A team of Polish designers has just won a competition with its design for an inflatable skyscraper designed for use in emergency zones.
The non-lethal weapons lab of the military unveils a futuristic weapon that can create speech and heat out of thin air dozens of miles away.
We tend to treat death and dying as a somber and serious event, but what if it doesn’t have to be that way?
The densest objects in the Universe are also the most difficult to destroy. But eventually, destruction always prevails. There are quite a few ways to make the black holes we […]
Reddit can reveal a lot, depending on how you interpret the data.
1,007 people were surveyed about their political affiliations and opinions, and their music tastes to learn to what extent they correspond to each other. Survey results are shown as infographics.
Mind-boggling as it is, some of the world’s roundest countries are also some of the most rectangular ones.
Would there be only blackness past the event horizon? Or something more? Black holes are some of the most perplexing objects in the entire Universe. Objects so dense, where gravitation […]
Almost two-thirds of doctors in the U.S. say they’re burned out, depressed, or both. What do we do when the very people charged with safeguarding our health against the effects of burnout are themselves suffering from burnout?
Few know about the trillion dollar crime that stole pay raises while weakening our economy. The “lootocrats” and their courtiers are taking us for a ride.
To help dramatize the need for us to open our minds about the potential nature of extraterrestrial life, experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats has built instruments and composed music for aliens.
Dr. Alex Berezow talks about the importance of communicating science in a clear and accurate way and why he turns to religion for the answers to some questions.
Despite what Hawking told you, it really isn’t about particle-antiparticle pairs at all. Nothing in the Universe lives forever. All the stars that will ever form will someday burn out; distant […]
Looks like we finally know some answers that they didn’t in 1940.