People think that unhappiness causes our minds to wander, but what if the causation goes the other way?
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A new book envisions an encounter of minds between the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, the physicist Werner Heisenberg, and the philosopher Immanuel Kant.
The acceptance of death is deeply embedded in our culture; it’s time to overthrow that idea.
A new bridge joins a divided Croatia, but it cuts Bosnia out of Europe — literally and figuratively. A bridge meant to unite also divides.
Time isn’t the same for everyone, even on Earth. Flying around the world gave Einstein the ultimate test. No one is immune from relativity.
Deep underwater, temperatures are close to freezing and the pressure is 1,000 times higher than at sea level.
With JWST, Chandra, and gravitational lensing combined, evidence has emerged for the earliest black hole ever. And wow, is it a surprise!
A new artificial intelligence method removes the effect of gravity on cosmic images, showing the real shapes of distant galaxies.
A recent study analyzed the skulls of early Homo species to learn more about the evolution of primate brains.
Most male mammals have little or nothing to do with their kids. Why is our own species different?
Today’s philosophy students would be justified in asking, “What does any of this have to do with living?”
From the Notre Dame to Buddhist statues, dozens of irreplaceable artifacts are destroyed every year by both man and nature.
A new family of drugs is changing the way scientists are thinking about obesity.
When you wish upon a star, it probably makes a difference who you are.
How slight differences could have forever changed our cosmic history. 13.8 billion years ago, what we know today as our Universe began with the hot Big Bang. Filled with matter, antimatter […]
It’s not about leaves in tall trees.
With a finite 13.8 billion years having passed since the Big Bang, there’s an edge to what we can see: the cosmic horizon. What’s it like?
Psychedelics have been shown to help reduce depression. This study may show us why.
A gigantic bacterium evolved differently than fundamental models of biology would have predicted. Simply put, these bacteria shouldn’t exist.
One research group’s AI-based drug discovery platform could be redesigned to discover VX nerve agent and 40,000 similar chemical weapons.
We used to think the Big Bang meant the universe began from a singularity. Nearly 100 years later, we’re not so sure.
This list of leadership training topics is designed to help businesses navigate the times and prepare for the future.
We already know animals feel emotions, and that they can understand humans’ emotions. But can they understand each other’s emotions?
How (not) to end up in the ash heap of history.
Smashing things together at unprecedented energies sounds dangerous. But it’s nothing the Universe hasn’t already seen, and survived.
On Nov. 13, 1946, a scientist dropped crushed dry ice from a plane into supercooled stratus clouds.
With such a vast Universe and raw ingredients that seem to be everywhere, could it really be possible that humanity is truly alone?
To study the origin of the Universe, we could build a constellation of six expensive spacecraft — or we could just use the Moon.
A new “common-sense” approach to computer vision enables artificial intelligence that interprets scenes more accurately than other systems do.