Scientists can make substantial progress without fully understanding exactly what they’re doing.
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Thomas Edison was on to something…
From the earliest stages of the hot Big Bang (and even before) to our dark energy-dominated present, how and when did the Universe grow up?
A more diverse workforce will produce better solutions in fast-changing markets.
Making up false information is one of the biggest problems with AI, but there are no silver-bullet solutions.
A new brain imaging study explored how different levels of the brain’s excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmitters are linked to math abilities.
Goodbye, Arabica? Learn to love Liberica.
The quadratic formula isn’t just something that teachers use to torture algebra students. The Babylonians once used it to calculate taxes.
The researchers consumed a lot of wine while watching 15 seasons of the show.
The secret may lie in an old idiom: “Sleep on it.”
Bertrand Russell shows us how to recognize emotional arguments smuggled into presumed statements of fact.
How we organize all our digital stuff — from work research to side hustles to family photos — is key to our productivity.
The Fermi paradox (along with the subsequent Drake equation) is so difficult that even brilliant thinkers can make little dent in it.
Exoplanet LP 791-18d is likely to have an atmosphere and liquid water.
The Wharton School professor — and author of Co-Intelligence — outlines ways we can tap into the AI advantage safely and effectively.
In history, every major technological advance has been used, for good and bad.
Since at least 600 BC, people have been mesmerized by the concept of the infinite.
Equations that describe time travel are fully compatible and consistent with relativity — but physics is not mathematics.
The Poisson distribution has everyday applications in science, finance, and insurance. To compare the results of some biomedical studies, more people ought to be familiar with it.
Explanations for the cosmic speed limit often conflate mass with inertia.
“If we find just one other example of biology out there, then life is not an accident.”
To reap the benefits of AI technologies, businesses must keep humans in the driving seat.
Despite the Sun’s high core temperatures, atomic nuclei repel each other too strongly to fuse together. Good thing for quantum physics!
We bring multifaceted selves to our interactions, and in these interactions co-create each other again and again.
Stanford psychologist Jamil Zaki discusses the dangers of cynicism and how skepticism can invigorate our relationships and communities.
There are at least 15 different types of solid water (ice). Now, scientists believe that there might be a second type of liquid water.
The effects are even worse for women.
The rewards price to get a free cup of hot coffee at Starbucks is going up.