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Research calls into question the separation of church and state in the United States.
The Spilhaus Projection may be more than 75 years old, but it has never been more relevant than today.
The Universe has been making stars for nearly the entire 13.8 billion years of its history. Here’s what we know. It’s been 13.8 billion years since the hot Big Bang, and […]
A Stanford new study delves into whether passions are fixed or developed.
Hawking, who died in March, answers questions like “Is there a God?” and “Is time travel possible?” in his final book, which is available today.
The latest advances in genetics and neuroscience suggest that mind control may soon be a reality. But how will we use this power once we get it?
The world’s getting hotter, and it’s getting more volatile. We need to start thinking about how climate change encourages conflict.
While nothing is ever certain about the future, here are 10 great achievements you can bet on. Every year, unexpected scientific discoveries challenge what we know. Observations using the Atacama Large […]
The placebo effect has been exhaustively researched over the years, but scientists haven’t gotten much closer to explaining what causes it. Now, additional research is showing that the placebo effect is even stranger than we thought.
Blockchain technology could help alleviate the struggles of asylum seekers who are many times left in the wake of political fights.
There may be a fundamental reason why time travel, backwards, is impossible. We’ve all had the dream of traveling back in time. Whether there’s a wrong we want to right, […]
Tech inventor Elon Musk has developed a “tiny, kid-size submarine” that could help rescue the four boys and their soccer coach who remain trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand.
A new study shows how increased coffee consumption interacts with the endocannabinoid system, which the body uses to process cannabinoids found in marijuana.
When we place the known objects in the Solar System in order, four inner, rocky worlds and four, outer, giant worlds stand out. Traditionally, these were defined as planets. Will […]
What does your phone know about you?
The story of that one time a U.S. city was run by a Soviet, and what it was like to live in it.
Charter schools and the privatization of education have an adversary in Akron. And in the NBA.
Cryptocurrencies have had their time in the spotlight. Now it’s time to focus on solving bigger problems.
“Hothouse Earth” is basically a self-sustaining engine of warming and carbon. Ummm…
In Well Grounded, behavioral neuroscience professor Kelly Lambert says it’s all about contingency planning.
There are real problems that our society faces, and only through expert-level knowledge can we solve them. All across the country, you can see how the seeds of it develop from […]
General Relativity had to be right. Here’s how we knew. What happens to light when it passes near a large mass? Does it simply continue in a straight line, undeflected from […]
How did psychedelics and computers converge?
It’s where Earth’s axial tilt with respect to the Sun is most extreme. Here are the consequences. Today is June 21st, 2019: the day of the solstice. Although there are […]
To go beyond meaning you might need a helpful phrase.
Stephen Curry’s yearly salary is a cool $34 million. Where did all this money come from?
There’s a halo of dark matter permeating every galaxy, and that means its particles pass through us, too. The Universe, despite all the planets, stars, gas, dust, galaxies, and more we […]
It’s the first, most naive question you might think to ask. The solution is a lot more complicated than you imagine. According to a large amount of evidence, the overwhelming majority […]