To understand ourselves and our place in the universe, “we should have humility but also self-respect,” Frank Wilczek writes in a new book.
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The compound found in “magic mushrooms” has significant and fast-acting impact on the brains of rats.
We don’t know with 100% certainty where SARS-CoV-2 first came from or how it first infected humans. But not all options are equally likely.
New research conducted on mice suggests repeated heavy drinking causes synaptic dysfunctions that lead to anxiety.
When you measure not just light, but light’s polarization, you learn so much more. It’s been over 100 years since the first solution for a black hole was discovered in General […]
Something isn’t adding up, but it isn’t a calibration error. It’s been nearly 100 years since we discovered that the Universe was expanding. Ever since, the scientists who study the […]
For many, 2020 will not be remembered as a “best of” much. We don’t need to repeat the reasons here; it’s sufficient to point out that a 100-year pandemic was […]
It’s one of the nation’s worst oil spills on record.
A drug developed to combat Alzheimer’s Disease can trigger regeneration of tooth dentin.
Strange bone circles made from mammoths revealed clues about how ancient communities survived Europe’s last ice age.
A new study at UPenn found that effective learning includes mistakes—just not too many.
Unraveling the mysteries of adult neurogenesis may have clinical applications.
Stone stackers enjoy the practice as a peaceful challenge, but scientists warn that moving small stones has mountainous consequences.
While the benefits of music therapy are well known, more in-depth research explores how music benefits children with autism.
Ever wonder how soft hair can dull a steel razor? So did scientists at MIT.
There’s a big difference between the notions of ‘false vacuum’ and ‘true vacuum’ states. Here’s why we don’t want to live in the former.
If a crisis like this only comes once in a hundred years, so does this opportunity.
Techshot’s 3D BioFabrication Facility successfully printed human heart tissue aboard the International Space Station.
German researchers have just solved the mystery of how these substances work.
Psychedelic therapy will become legal in Oregon in 2023. That’s thanks largely to a renaissance of psychedelic research that’s changing attitudes on the substances’ medical potential.
Because of our ability to think about thinking, “the gap between ape and man is immeasurably greater than the one between amoeba and ape.”
Our views from the red planet’s surface are more spectacular than ever. Ever since the earliest spaceflight, humanity has reached for Mars. This photo composite shows Meande Ring, a river on […]
How quickly is it expanding today, and how does that expansion rate change over time? What is the Universe made of? How quickly is it expanding today, and how does that […]
The majority of the matter in our Universe isn’t made of any of the particles in the Standard Model. Could the axion save the day?
What does it mean to “lead without authority”?
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There’s a million things we haven’t done. But just you wait. The Universe as we know it began some 13.8 billion years ago with the onset of the hot Big Bang. […]
There are three things your new theory must do in order to be taken seriously as science. This one’s 0-for-3. Every once in a while, a revolutionary idea comes along that […]
Electricity from solar energy is the cheapest it’s ever been, thanks largely to technological improvements and policies that reduce the risk of investing in renewable energy. That’s one of the […]
Dark matter is perhaps the most mysterious substance in the Universe. What exactly it is, however, still eludes us. Dark matter is one of the most mysterious and yet most ubiquitous […]
The pieces don’t represent an army, they stand in for the Western social order.