Neil deGrasse Tyson: “One of the things that I think is missing in the educational pipeline in America is… a class on what science is, and how and why it works.”
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The Actors’ Gang Prison Project has spent ten years proving that teaching prisoners self-worth and emotional intelligence pays off.
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In How Emotions Are Made psychology professor Lisa Fedlman Barrett considers the role of emotions in health.
Have you ever been curious about how curiosity works?
Acupuncture has a bad rap in the scientific community, but can modern brain scanning techniques redeem it?
The positive effect of bilingualism may be particularly beneficial for kids who grow up in low-income households, an environment that usually has negative effects on cognitive performance.
The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons issued a statement to remind its members of their fundamental obligation to science-based medicine and animal welfare.
If nature makes equal amounts of matter and antimatter, how are we here? When you look out at the vastness of the Universe, at the planets, stars, galaxies, and all there […]
Altruism may be influenced by other biological mechanisms outside of the brain.
NASA scientists discover what two places in the solar system might have favorable conditions for alien life.
We see matter, but not antimatter, in our Universe. Could black holes be the answer? One of the greatest cosmic puzzles in our entire Universe is why there’s so much more […]
The secret behind the Em Drive’s thrust, which is real, may be in the long-discarded pilot wave theory.
NASA and SETI invite the public to nickname a small icy world, or pair of worlds, in the distant Kuiper Belt ahead of a New Horizons 2019 flyby.
A piece of legislation to address the problem is getting widespread support. Yet, it’s stalled.
God has a twitter account, and it is full of hilarity as well as deep insights.
What do our future missions in physics, astronomy, astrophysics and more hold? If you went back in time just 30 years, the world as we it was a completely different place. […]
An increase in carbon dioxide is not doing good things to our produce. Or bodies.
If a former Nazi realized its importance nearly 50 years ago, perhaps we all can, too. Around the country and around the world, there is no shortage of human suffering. Poverty, […]
NASA scientists are sifting through some of the last transmissions from Cassini. And what they’re finding are kittens. You read that right.
Which is worse? Alcohol or marijuana?
It isn’t about saving us from aliens at all. “To be on my very first spacewalk, to be outside, and to have contamination in my suit to the point that I […]
Google is closing in on achieving a major quantum computing milestone.
Children’s drawings of houses rendered as they’d look in real life.
It isn’t the rapture or some crazy prophesy, but science, that tells us when and how the end will come. “The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic […]
Can scientists agree on a code of ethics? The World Economic Forum Young Scientists community just proposed a Code of Ethics, which was a topic of discussion at the recent World Economic Forum’s meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
If the bolide had hit just 30 seconds later, we’d be looking at a very different Earth.
Like any stereotype, there are some elements of truth in all of them, but they oversimplify reality and create a lot of roadblocks to healthy collaboration.
The first component of a planned “space kingdom” has been launched into orbit.
Haseef Rafiei, a young Malaysian architect, had a thought one day: what if we could convert the real estate industry into an automated vending system?