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American universities used to be small centers of rote learning, but three big ideas turned them into intellectual powerhouses.
Walter Pitts rose from the streets to MIT, but couldn’t escape himself.
What makes some people more likely to shiver than others?
Awe makes us feel smaller but also more connected to life and each other.
For the first time, it was discovered that nonphotosynthetic bacteria have a circadian clock.
Your brain is remarkably good at mapping out physical spaces — even if it’s an imaginary space like Hogwarts. But how does the brain do it?
Trained dogs can detect cancer and other diseases by smell. Could a device do the same?
Surprising as it may seem, we are all very good at denial. Negation, however, is a different phenomena.
The Big Bang was hot, dense, uniform, and filled with matter and energy. Before that? There was nothing. Here’s how that’s possible.
In the 1980s, some wardens started painting their cells with a shade of pink dubbed “Baker-Miller Pink.”
No matter how controversial or politicized our world becomes, science remains humanity’s best tool for figuring out how things work.
In each of our minds, we draw a demarcation line between beliefs that are reasonable and those that are nonsense. Where do you draw your line?
The world is changing, and technology is driving that change. Today, that observation is about as compelling as the insight that water runs downhill. It’s just what technology (and water) […]
Two new studies examine ways we could engineer human wormhole travel.
Reading code activates a general-purpose brain network, but not language-processing centers.
Surrounding Earth is a powerful magnetic field created by swirling liquid iron in the planet’s core. Earth’s magnetic field may be nearly as old as the Earth itself – and […]
Many contrarians dispute that cosmic inflation occurred. The evidence says otherwise.
Because of our ability to think about thinking, “the gap between ape and man is immeasurably greater than the one between amoeba and ape.”
Most people seem to enjoy liberalism and its spin offs, but what is it exactly? Where did the idea come from?
The opening lines of Smartmatic’s $2.7 billion lawsuit against Fox News lay bare the culture of denial in the US.
Scott Dikkers discusses comedy, the creative process, and life lessons learned playing peekaboo.
For some philosophers, hope is a second-rate way of relating to reality.
The compound found in “magic mushrooms” has significant and fast-acting impact on the brains of rats.
When Tal Golesworthy was told he was at risk of his aorta bursting, he wasn’t impressed with the surgery on offer – so he came up with his own idea.
After mammoth investments and two decades of anti-aging research, what do immortality proponents have to show for it?
Signals from across the universe point toward a fascinating possibility.
Hidden variables aren’t ruled out, but they can’t get rid of quantum weirdness. Ever since the discovery of the bizarre behavior of quantum systems, we’ve been forced to reckon with […]
And can we devise an experiment to tell, even when we aren’t looking? One of the most bizarre aspects of quantum physics is that the fundamental entities that make up the […]
Regularities, which we associate with laws of nature, require an explanation.