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A study published in Applied Cognitive Psychology suggests that believers struggle to understand the physical world.

The hallmark of a good scientist is changing your mind when new evidence arises. Here’s what that looks like. Science, like many things in life, is always a work-in-progress. While a […]

Einstein didn’t like the schools he went to, how would he improve them?

In 2015, Ed Witten, the greatest living string theorist, wrote a piece on why. Here’s the version for everyone. It’s one of the most brilliant, controversial and unproven ideas in […]

Elegance, beauty, and mathematical precision makes for a compelling story and an exquisite model. But it doesn’t make it right. Scientific theories, at their best, are simple, straightforward, full of predictive […]

Duke University researchers found that stimulating brain regions dealing with abstract reasoning and cognitive flexibility alleviate anxiety and depression. 

In the search for fundamental truths in our Universe, one of the biggest questions, “are space and time continuous or discrete,” remains unanswered. Throughout the history of science, one of […]

Feversham Academy in Bradford, England has profoundly improved its students’ performance by adding a lot more music to their curriculum.

If we know how big the observable Universe is, why can’t we figure out how big the unobservable part is? 13.8 billion years ago, the Big Bang occurred. The Universe was […]

Granted, genetic manipulation has been a dream for decades. Here’s what is different now.

Research has shown that early intervention can make ASD more manageable.

Summary Salman Khan, the founder of Khan Academy, discusses the story of how he was inspired to create a software-based learning tool that would teach others subjects like Math, World […]

You’ve heard of the big Greek philosophers. Now, read about the ones who inspired them.

By training algorithms on human data, they learn our biases.

Are all those drunk animals on YouTube actually drunk? Zoologist Lucy Cooke examines what’s really going on when animals go, er, wild.

Mathematicians argue in a new paper that the accelerating expansion of the universe can be explained without dark energy.

The way that hits are now calculated, impossibly long albums may be on the horizon.

How useful are the algorithms dating sites use? According to one regulatory agency, not very.

We should stop “celebrating” Valentines Day in elementary-school classrooms.

Understanding this evaluation process may help us create more sophisticated A.I.

And the one “sucker’s question” you must never answer, even if the salesperson asks it. For a majority of American adults, a car is a necessity of daily life. From commuting […]

A top-secret government airline that flies to locations like Area 51 is put in a spotlight by a recent ad and an unexpected connection to the Las Vegas shooting. 

The effect worked best when the women knew whose shirt it was.

But if a radical new idea comes to fruition, maybe we can find them after all. After decades of planning, building, prototyping, upgrading, and calibrating, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) […]

Physicists propose a new kind of space structure that can allow information to escape from black holes.

Here are five points from the World Economic Forum at Davos that can help men and women work together for gender equality.

Dark energy means that the Universe’s expansion is accelerating. But how big will it get, and how fast? Our Universe, as we observe it today, is a vast, enormous place, full […]

Dylan McWilliams was bit by a shark in Hawaii less than a year after being bit by a bear in Colorado. What are the odds? There’s an old saying out there […]

One achievable solution can stop the epidemic of school shootings in the United States without restricting the guns of law-abiding citizens.

A comprehensive new study finds that lefties are, in fact, better at advanced math.