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Many contrarians dispute that cosmic inflation occurred. The evidence says otherwise.

The language you speak plays an important role in how you evaluate truth.

The great hope is that beyond the indirect, astrophysical evidence we have today, we’ll someday detect it directly. But what if we can’t?

The Universe is grand, awe-inspiring, and greater than we likely imagine. Even astrophysicists get anxious thinking about it, but we cope.

The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter recently captured images that could help scientists better under the mysterious physics of our Sun.

Treatments for depression have significantly improved since the 1980s. So why isn’t the rate of depression decreasing?

Drones have a lot to learn from the landing abilities of birds.

Wealth concentration among elites was common in ancient nations, but the scale on which it took place in Egypt’s 18th Dynasty was unprecedented.

A skills gap analysis can help an organization prepare for change and become well-equipped to thrive in the future.

An incredible composite image of Pandora’s Cluster, Abell 2744, simultaneously showcases both our impressive knowledge and vast ignorance.

Realizing that matter and energy are quantized is important, but quantum particles aren’t the full story; quantum fields are needed, too.

There’s a fatal prion infection killing deer and elk across North America.

Equations that describe time travel are fully compatible and consistent with relativity — but physics is not mathematics.

A 12-year study shows that these large lemurs have a sophisticated sense of rhythm.

Hit shows are like societal mirrors, capable of reflecting the cultural zeitgeist whose likeness they try to record. 

Historical geniuses used the “creative nap” to give their minds a boost. Apparently, the “hypnagogic state” can help with problem solving.

Short-termism is both rooted in our most primal instincts and encouraged by runaway technological development. How can we fight it?

The human brain is only the latest chapter in the ancient story of thinking on Earth.

Some scientists believe that DMT could revolutionize the treatment of depression.

With 1550 distinct type Ia supernovae measured across ~10 billion years of cosmic time, the Pantheon+ data set reveals our Universe.

This everyday electrical phenomenon had no widely accepted scientific explanation — perhaps, until now.

A recent study used fMRI to compare the brains of psychopathic criminals with a group of 100 well-functioning individuals, finding striking similarities.

Theoretical physicist Geoffrey West explains the science behind a unique hypothesis.

Forgetting and misremembering are the building blocks of creativity and imagination.

If you have an old TV set with the “rabbit ear” antennae, and you set it to channel 03, that snowy static can reveal the Big Bang itself.

Your brain is remarkably good at mapping out physical spaces — even if it’s an imaginary space like Hogwarts. But how does the brain do it?

Galactic archaeology has uncovered a spectacular find: the Milky Way already existed more than 13 billion years ago.

How drugs, demons, and the search for immortality gave us words we use everyday.

If there really is another version of you out there in a parallel universe, what can that teach us about reality?

Deniers will never stop misleading others. Here’s the truth. Every so often, advocates of a fringe theory — one that doesn’t fit the evidence as well as the mainstream theory — do what they can […]