Using the Book of Mormon as a sacred but ambiguous atlas, the Latter-day Saints have been looking for the lost city of Zarahemla for decades.
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The gaze of another person can make us conceive of our body as an object.
Leadership training can have huge dividends, when it’s done right. Here are seven best practices for building a leadership development program that works.
Today, we could use Big Data to radically reform democracy. Tomorrow, we could build nanofabricators and usher in an era of abundance. Is society ready?
Religion fosters traits that are helpful in a school system that relies on authority figures and rewards people who follow the rules.
The microscopic tardigrades are an elusive species. Fossils are rare, but each new find adds a piece to their unsolved evolutionary puzzle.
Neuroplasticity is a major driver of learning and memory in humans.
“Superjobs” – roles that integrate human and machine skills – will require careful consideration.
Recent geopolitical turning points, like Brexit and the 2016 U.S. presidential election, were chapters in a story that extends decades back in world history.
Creating an afterlife—or a simulation of one—would take vast amounts of energy. Some scientists think the best way to capture that energy is by building megastructures around stars.
In determining what qualifies as solid science, controversy is inevitable.
The book “The Genesis Machine” outlines the promise and peril of synthetic biology, a powerful tool that will allow us to program life like a computer.
Pythagoras may have believed that the entire cosmos was constructed out of right triangles.
We’ve found our first ones! The question is: how did they survive? Over the past 2 years, an exciting development has finally arisen: scientists have measured a large number of small, […]
Scientists put the most mysterious force in the Universe to the ultimate test. When it comes to the Universe, it’s easy to make the incorrect assumption that what we see is […]
These animals to grow scalpel-sharp and precisely shaped tools that are resistant to breaking.
Nagomi helps us find balance in discord by unifying the elements of life while staying true to ourselves.
Many atheists think of themselves as intellectually gifted individuals, guiding humanity on the path of reason. Scientific data shows otherwise.
Icebergs aren’t just a threat to unsinkable ships. Their ability to cause underwater landslides poses a danger to coastal cities.
The modern antiracist movement is harming the very people it claims to help, according to the linguist John McWhorter.
The dream of zero resistance is closer than you may think. One of the biggest physical problems in modern society is resistance. Not political or social resistance, mind you, but electrical […]
Often called modern-day dinosaurs, cassowaries are one of only a few birds known to have killed humans.
A mineral made in a Kamchatka volcano may hold the answer to cheaper batteries, find scientists.
Yes, the Big Bang is real, but what about what came before? If you ask anyone about the origin of some phenomenon that we’ve observed, they’ll usually default to the same […]
A new study looks at what happens when you get infected with two viruses at the same time.
Everything else in the universe is either a particle or field. Dark energy behaves as neither, and it may be a property inherent to space itself.
The death of God didn’t strike Nietzsche as an entirely good thing. Without a God, the basic belief system of Western Europe was in jeopardy.
75 years after Erwin Schrödinger’s prescient description of something like DNA, we still don’t know the “laws of life.”
Ever since the start of the hot Big Bang, time ticks forward as the Universe expands. But could time ever run backward, instead?