The “first cause” problem may forever remain unsolved, as it doesn’t fit with the way we do science.
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New research reveals that the face can affect the shape of the brain through a complex “cross-talk” between the two structures.
Science cannot help us understand or describe first-person experience. Zen koans are a powerful form for helping us reach that description.
The matter that creates black holes won’t be what comes out when they evaporate. Will the black hole information paradox ever be solved?
The same brain differences that contribute to left-handedness also contribute to psychotic disorders. But there’s a bright side.
The acceptance of death is deeply embedded in our culture; it’s time to overthrow that idea.
At least 33 cities are sinking by more than 1 cm a year.
When you don’t have enough clues to bring your detective story to a close, you should expect that your educated guesses will all be wrong.
Einstein’s relativity teaches us that time isn’t absolute, but passes relatively for everyone. So how do telescopes see back through time?
Everything we observe beyond our Local Group is speeding away from us, omnidirectionally. If the Universe is expanding, where is the center?
Metal-like materials have been discovered in a very strange place.
When what we predict and what we measure don’t add up, that’s a sign there’s something new to learn. Could it be a new fundamental force?
The first observational evidence showing the Universe is expanding is 100 years old now: in 2023. Here’s the story of its 100th anniversary.
A study proposes that an ancient trading network, called the Hopewell tradition, may have been wiped out by what is known as a cosmic airburst.
A new family of drugs is changing the way scientists are thinking about obesity.
The Arabic word fatwa can mean “explanation” or “clarification.”
From the Big Bang to black holes, singularities are hard to avoid. The math definitely predicts them, but are they truly, physically real?
It had long seemed impossible that supermassive black holes could grow to such enormous sizes. But the biggest problem is now solved.
An experiment in rats suggests that gene editing may be a treatment for anxiety and alcoholism in adults who were exposed to binge-drinking in their adolescence.
“The Soul of a New Machine” provides a rare level of insight into the minds and decisions of humanity’s greatest thinkers.
How (not) to end up in the ash heap of history.
Types of therapy are about as different as the people who use it.
Bolsheviks planned to erect a towering monument to the socialist cause, but their quixotic ideas never got off the ground.
The information we have in the Universe is finite and limited, but our curiosity and wonder is forever insatiable. And always will be.
The world needs a moral defense of progress based in humanism and agency.
One of the most original and optimistic thinkers in America sketches some big ideas about what’s possible with AI in the next 25 years.
The most important events in history have nothing to do with politics or wars.
Should we be searching for life on other planets, or technology?
Is the Universe finite or infinite? Does it go on forever or loop back on itself? Here’s what would happen if you traveled forever.