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With a bigger, better, and more sensitive detector, the XENON collaboration joins LZ and PANDA-X in constraining WIMP dark matter.

How does philosophy try to balance having free will with living in a deterministic universe?

The idea of gravitational redshift crossed Einstein’s mind years before General Relativity was complete. Here’s why it had to be there.

Satire and an inflated sense of self-importance collide in a series of maps that goes back more than 100 years in American history.

It’s hard to stop looking back and forth between these faces and the busts they came from.

How can we learn from the lessons of the past and build a better future?

With radio and X-ray data combined, we’re understanding how energy flows like never before. When we look out at the Universe on the largest cosmic scales of all, gravity is the […]

Why power generated through nuclear fusion will be the future, but not the present, solution to humanity’s energy needs.

The independent news collective is teaching a new generation of journalists and citizens to spot the stories in plain sight.

It’s insidious and destructive, but there are some things you can do to develop a healthier relationship with material things.

By not taking emergency action to combat climate change, we’re gambling dangerously with the future.

You may be surprised at how your body and brain react to this type of pleasure.

Why do some people still believe that behavior is caused solely by genes or environment? A new paper offers some answers.

It’s how successful our current theories are. Some 500 years ago, there was one scientific phenomenon that was, without controversy, extremely well-understood: the motion of the celestial objects in the sky. […]

We’ve known this virus was coming. We just didn’t do anything about it.

And after these 10 surprising maps, the Alpine republic will never look the same again.

Although everyone knows that coal-based energy is a thing of the past, declarations about nuclear power plants somehow do not want to enter into force.

Social distancing won’t be easy, but science shows us how to make it more manageable.

Even before publication, health agencies were asking the journal not to publish the research.

Trump is #45 but Pence is #48 – and other strange consequences of the curious office of vice president.

Polls never reveal who we really are. Google does.

Try not to think about your hands. Now enjoy a few minutes of not being able to stop thinking about them.

Is the way we hear music biological or cultural?

In one generation, the climate of many American cities will experience a noticeable shift.

Without a healthy mind, tackling life’s challenges becomes exponentially more difficult.

The Harvard Medical School’s clinical professor of psychiatry wrote the book on the topic.

Scientists discovered microbes that have lived on Earth for millions of years.

Brain plasticity. Mindful superpowers. Pokémon invading our grey matter. Scientists have only begun to learn about the human brain.

Being bilingual has cultural, social, and cognitive benefits — so why are schools dropping language courses?

More and more research points to a serious mistake we made in how biomechanics works.