Some neurology experiments — such as growing miniature human brains and reanimating the brains of dead pigs — are getting weird. It’s time to discuss ethics.
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How different people react to threats of violence.
Is it groupthink? Or is there a deeper reason? In the early half of the 20th century, even after the discovery of the expanding Universe, physicists considered a wide variety of […]
Even addition has to play by different rules for black holes. How do you add 28 and 47 together? This simple math question helps us highlight the many different ways that […]
While the concept stretches back centuries, it has garnered significant attention in recent decades.
Even the most brilliant mind in history couldn’t have achieved all he did without significant help from the minds of others.
This unsettling simulation shows how mucus-mist can rapidly spread in a grocery store.
13.8 billion years ago, the hot Big Bang gave rise to the Universe we know. Here’s why the reverse, a Big Crunch, isn’t how it will end.
The latest gravitational wave data from LIGO and Virgo finally shows us the truth: there are no “gaps” in the masses of black holes.
Atomic clocks keep time accurately to within 1 second every 33 billion years. Nuclear clocks could blow them all away.
How two seemingly distinct exoplanet systems turned out to be related. Practically every star in the Milky Way has a similar origin story. At some point in the past, a molecular […]
There have been some 6,000 Great Lakes shipwrecks, which have claimed an estimated 30,000 lives. These maps show some of them.
The controversy over the universe’s expansion rate continues with a new, faster estimate.
What began as public outcry against Iran’s so-called morality police has snowballed into a mass movement targeting the very essence of the Islamic republic.
In one of the ocean’s most lifeless places, scientists discover and resuscitate ancient organisms.
There’s no such thing as a miracle drug.
The risk of dying basically flattens after age 110.
The 1998 hit is making a comeback. Stop what you’re doing and watch the original.
We have two ways of measuring the expansion rate. Here’s the harder one. If you want to understand where our Universe came from and where it’s going, you need to measure […]
Anxiety can be good or bad. It turns out that it’s really up to you.
One of the fundamental questions for those studying and advocating progress is around understanding what variables can move the needle for the type of progress that you might want to see in the world. It’s a key focus of the “progress studies” discipline and a question that has received increased attention from academics and public intellectuals in recent years.
Forget billions and billions. When it comes to the number of galaxies in the Universe, both theorists’ and observers’ estimates are too low.
Yukio Mishima treated his life as if it were a story — one with a surprising and deadly final act.
If you think ‘particles are matter’ and ‘antiparticles are antimatter,’ think again. In this Universe, there are certain rules that have never been observed to be broken. Some of these […]
Named M51-ULS-1b, it’s certainly a curious astronomical event. But the evidence is far too weak to conclude “planet.”
Researchers discover black holes that violate the uniqueness theorem and have “gravitational hair.”
Scientists used CT scanning and 3D-printing technology to re-create the voice of Nesyamun, an ancient Egyptian priest.
“Such studies will lead to a better understanding of brain development in both autistic and typical individuals.”
Think you can solve it? One mathematician has already offered about $1,000 and a bottle of champagne to whoever cracks it first.
Underperforming, the U.S. comes in only 157th out of 196 in global triangularity ranking.