The brain is highly plastic — the more we do a particular action, the more we change its makeup. Money is a great motivator for habit-forming actions.
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These composers channeled the horror of the Holocaust and Hiroshima while honoring those who lived through it.
Ideas often taken for granted in the United States and Europe about what it means to be a person are, quite simply, not shared with other cultures.
Art criticism is inherently subjective. Still, many critics have tried to make a case for why some of the world’s most celebrated books are in fact terribly written.
This everyday electrical phenomenon had no widely accepted scientific explanation — perhaps, until now.
There is no sure-fire formula for success, but you can be better prepared to create your own.
A 19th-century surveying mistake kept lumberjacks away from what is now Minnesota’s largest patch of old-growth trees.
The Centennial State is technically a hexahectaenneacontakaiheptagon.
One hundred years ago, a Ukrainian flag flew over Vladivostok and other parts of the “Russian” Far East.
Some Europeans really don’t want to use the internet.
Outfitted with wheels and rotors, the bot can morph from a land drone into a quadcopter in seconds.
How much we enjoy a conversation can all be a matter of timing — specifically, how long it takes us to respond to what was just said.
Discovered in 1900, the Saint-Bélec slab languished unrecognized in a castle basement for over a century.
Was our distant ancestor a biped or not – i.e., human or not human?
In our Solar System, even the two brightest planets frequently align in our skies. But only rarely is it spectacularly visible from Earth.
When cosmic inflation came to an end, the hot Big Bang ensued as a result. If our cosmic vacuum state decays, could it all happen again?
Many animals practice what looks like self-medication. A new report suggests that chimps tend wounds with insects, often treating each other.
Spin, spin, spin — fire! The startup’s radical system could make satellite launches cheaper and cleaner.
Finding alien technology on the seafloor would be truly incredible. This extraordinary claim, however, is debunked by the actual evidence.
Often called modern-day dinosaurs, cassowaries are one of only a few birds known to have killed humans.
Rock art in northern Australia depicts marsupial lions, giant kangaroos, and other megafauna that populated the Land Down Under long ago.
“You gotta know when to fold ’em.”
Contrary to popular belief, it’s not to mark Mexican independence.
Hubble showed us what our modern day Universe looks like. JWST’s big goal was to teach us how the Universe grew up. Here’s where we are now.
After 15 years of monitoring 68 objects known as millisecond pulsars, we’ve found the Universe’s background gravitational wave signal!
You can’t spot a liar just by looking — but psychologists are zeroing in on methods that might actually work.
Many people out there, including scientists, claim to have discovered a series of game-changing revolutions. Here’s why we don’t buy it.
Hermann Minkowski called Einstein a “lazybones” with a “not very solid” education. Less than 10 years later, he would eat his words.