That completely useless thing you want to get rid of — it’s probably more important than you think.
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Evolutionary pressures drove the formation of tribes who encoded their values in myths and symbols. Was this cooperation cursed?
Between the least massive star and most massive planet lies the mysterious brown dwarf: a class of objects that are neither star nor planet.
∆G = ∆H – T∆S is one of the most abstract formulas in science, but it is also one of the most important. Without it, life cannot exist.
“Superhabitable” planets might be real, but Earth is probably as good as it gets.
When we are more focused on the good things we enjoy in life, we have more to live for.
In the early stages of the hot Big Bang, matter and antimatter were (almost) balanced. After a brief while, matter won out. Here’s how.
One reason saving is hard: We tend to view our “future selves” as complete strangers, and our decisions in the present moment reflect that.
In general, 5G is not a threat to human health or activities, but there are some legitimate questions about interference with airplane instruments.
Some say that the Sun is a green-yellow color, but our human eyes see it as white, or yellow-to-red during sunset. What color is it really?
Want to write a time-travel story? Do so at your own risk.
Seventy-five years after the anomaly’s discovery, scientists have finally figured out why sea levels are so much lower here.
Here’s the case for why science can’t keep ignoring human experience.
The truth may be out there — but it’s not in these close encounters of the third kind.
There are plenty of life-friendly stellar systems in the Universe today. But at some point in the far future, life’s final extinction will occur.
Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major (K448) can help reduce seizures in epilepsy patients.
There’s no telling whether machine-learned common sense is five years away, or 50.
To make a ton of information stick in your mind, you have to make it chunky.
It’s not about particle-antiparticle pairs falling into or escaping from a black hole. A deeper explanation alters our view of reality.
Research has found that words are more accurately heard when accompanied by hand gestures.
The AI is helping Twitter users plot movies, design meal plans, and more.
Memories aren’t mental recordings, but pliable information we can use to better manage the present and conjure future possibilities.
All American and European eels originate in the same place.
Jules Verne wrote about gasoline-powered vehicles, weapons of mass destruction, and global warming more than a century ago.
Stories of child prodigies and the naturally gifted hide the fact that success is built on more than talent alone.
Moral panics about the content of children’s cartoons and other forms of entertainment have a long history.
Survivorship bias occurs when we fail to consider how data was collected. To combat this, search for the “silent evidence.”
Take a trip through these master-crafted fantasy societies and ask yourself: Could I actually live there?
Listening to some songs can cause a powerful physiological response known as “frisson.” What is it, and why does it happen?
Quite a lot, actually, even though it has no identifiable value as a scientific concept.