Three eyes are so much better than two. Here’s why. “Einstein’s gravitational theory, which is said to be the greatest single achievement of theoretical physics, resulted in beautiful relations connecting gravitational […]
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The 24/7 nudge economy is emerging. Once-quiet appliances that waited for you to push their buttons are now pushing yours.
Pocket-sized therapies, like counseling apps, are praised as a timely solution to the budgetary pressures and long waiting lists of overstretched mental health services. But do they work?
A well-deserved award for the discovery over a century in the making. “Well, I walked into Building 20 and looked in at the various little labs. There was a bunch of […]
Can we ensure robots are greeted into society without people getting that sinking feeling?
People possessing openness can take diverging visual stimuli and combine them in a special way.
Amidst the recent discovery of super-Earth LHS 1140b – one of the “most exciting” exoplanets discovered in the last decade – a unique scientific crowdsourcing project is about to begin to further advance the search for new planets.
A blacker-than-black coating reveals how our senses totally fail without input they understand.
Machine learning and predictive AI are changing the way we operate our devices and machines.
A process which occurs in all mammals may be to blame.
Storied skills and a musical analogy might help us update the logic of “virtue ethics.” In life, as in jazz, freedom without skills results in a lot foolish noise.
A new extension suggests that you follow people you don’t agree with. Will this help pop your bubble?
Anxiety can be a force for good, writes Tibetan Buddhist nun Pema Chödrön.
The Antipode may one day revolutionize your commute. It would be 10 times faster than the Concorde and take you across the ocean before you could finish an episode of The Simpsons.
‘Let there be light’ isn’t just biblical. It’s science. “By its very nature science knows no boundaries. Walling off any group, for any reason, from full participation damages the entire enterprise […]
Fancy a game of Japanese chess?
New Here One earbuds aim to bring enhanced human hearing to market.
Constant? Not-a-constant? Or is there a fundamental flaw in the way we’re doing business? This article was written by Sabine Hossenfelder. Sabine is a theoretical physicist specialized in quantum gravity […]
Since the March for Science was planned, it’s been mired in controversy from both supporters and those who think it’s politicized.
Australia could soon ban unvaccinated children from attending preschools nationwide.
Hospitals are starting to get serious about just how noisy they can be for patients trying to heal.
The popular concept of introversion often differs from how psychologists define the term, but a new model seeks to clarify exactly what being an introvert means.
I trail run early in the morning, in part, to avoid people. Los Angeles might be vast, but spacious it is not. By 6:30 am I’m running up one side […]
LIGO’s world-changing announcement was the beginning. The best is what comes next. “It’s the first time the universe has spoken to us through gravitational waves, up to now we’ve been deaf […]
Physicists finds evidence from just after the Big Bang that supports the controversial holographic universe theory.
Germany is becoming the first country in the world to start operating a fleet of hydrogen-powered passenger trains that emit only steam and water.
From a Universe that went no bigger than our Milky Way to the trillions of galaxies in our expanding Universe, our knowledge increased one step at a time. “Gamow was fantastic […]
Scientists and Imogen Heap team up to create the perfect song to make a baby happy.
It’s time we talked about working less. While some argue that we shorten the working week, others favor cutting out pointless, time-filler jobs altogether.
You don’t have to detect a particle to know that dark matter is real. “You may hate gravity, but gravity doesn’t care.” –Clayton Christensen In the 1970s, Vera Rubin’s observations showed […]