Despite its prominence in our collective imagination, variations in metabolism play a minor role in obesity.
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A new study highlights the role Facebook algorithms unwittingly played in ISIS recruitment and points to continuing problems.
Was Oscar Wilde—witty author, gay rights icon, and lover of champagne and material beauty—a radical socialist?
The field of Artificial Intelligence is pushing back against a newcomer — for good reason.
Addiction Now has developed infographics based on a survey of 1,000 people who were asked what they thought would be appropriate sentences for drug crimes. It’s pretty different than what they really are.
A team at MIT has discovered that human brains are capable of “seeing” ghost images hidden between groups of patterns captured by single-pixel cameras.
Colorado and Oregon are leading the charge.
Vision restoration is the main goal, but the CustomFlex Artificial Iris could also be used for cosmetic purposes.
It’s been there the whole time, but researchers couldn’t see it because they’d always cut through it.
China is investing a gargantuan amount of money in Africa, but it’s leaving many in the global community concerned as to why.
There’s a reason why all the world seems to be hiding within the borders of Maine.
The road to harmony often means getting your hands dirty.
Intelligent aliens, if they exist in the galaxy or the Universe, might be detectable from a variety of signals: electromagnetic, from planet modification, or because they’re spacefaring. But we haven’t […]
One of the night sky’s most famous sights isn’t what it appears to be. Perhaps the most famous sight of a dying star is the Ring Nebula, known since 1779. The […]
In 2017, conflict was stronger between red and blue than it was between black and white.
Why do some enter into such an irrational and potentially harmful state during sleep?
New insights into the role of water vapor may help researchers predict how the planet will respond to warming.
This September, Apple revealed its newest iPhone lineup. The largest option of the iPhone XS Max tops out at $1,499 — nearly two and a half times the price of […]
Getting your vote to where it matters can be harder and more corrupt than it should be. Could blockchain technology build a better system and rebuild people’s trust?
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We often support ideas without knowing quite why. John Stuart Mill reminds us why capitalism can be great for us and why we should be wary of state power.
How do great people get so much done? If you’re Ben Franklin, you lay out a detailed schedule.
A new study says climate change could cause an additional 40,000 suicides in America and Canada by 2050.
NASA has found organic matter preserved in 3-billion-year-old mudstones at Gale crater on Mars. Is it just a matter of time before life is discovered on the red planet?
We need a public mature enough to recognize that policy decisions and actions are more relevant to leadership than professed beliefs.
Sure we know it would be bad, but what do all of these scary numbers really mean?
The ingredients for life are everywhere, but so far the only life we know of comes from Earth. Here’s how that might change. Ever since human beings first turned our eyes […]
We need a break, but the possibility of getting one seems unlikely.
Millions of people will watch the 2018 FIFA World Cup this week on TVs and computers. But new technology suggests the next World Cup might be watched through 3D holograms.
For the first time, an object from outside our solar system is observed traveling through our neighborhood.
Free market ideology uses democratic vocabulary as propaganda, obscuring a non-democratic reality.