Search Results

Hans Monderman believed that societies could make roads safer by making drivers more uncertain, and therefore alert.

New landmark research of 101,000 Americans shows stark religious and ethnic changes.

This list of 10 non-winners is 50% women, but 100% outrageous. In science, advances often come in great leaps. In hindsight, it’s easy to identify perhaps hundreds of small steps […]

Evolution exists and exerts itself in a different way than gravity does… because natural selection is an “algorithmic force.” 

The newest wave in ethics is also the oldest.

Our brains can do some pretty weird things to us sometimes. These prove it.   

If it weren’t just the three space and one time dimensions, what would be different? “There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a […]

The smart money is still on LIGO, but there sure looks like something funny is happening if the new group is correct. This article was contributed by Sabine Hossenfelder. Sabine […]

The Electoral College system is anachronistic, disillusioning, and unpopular. Here’s a better plan.   

The reports that our Solar System is missing the galaxy’s most common type of planet are greatly exaggerated. “To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a […]

The African immune system has a downside—a higher risk of an autoimmune disorder.  

Turns out, organisms may be using quantum mechanics to gain evolutionary advantages.   

The most elusive naked-eye planet is downright impossible to view for billions of us on Earth. “I long ago abandoned the notion of a life without storms, or a world without […]

What made the Golden Age of Greece, and Western Civilization, possible? One author says “free trade”. 

A new study by planetary scientists proposes a giant new space object which could have formed the Earth and the moon.

As more and more Baby Boomers prepare to leave the workforce, many companies are scrambling to find suitable replacements for their most experienced workers. Being able to hold on to […]

Storytelling isn’t an escape from reality, it’s a deep dive into it. 

Have you heard that life is unlikely around low-mass, red dwarf stars? It might be time to rethink that flawed conclusion. “Laws of nature mixed with evolutionary/historical contingencies allow for […]

Everyone could be wearing a tDCS cap in 5-10 years, top scientist states.

Users don’t need better media literacy to beat fake news. We need social media to be frank about its commercial interests.

Forget everything you think you learned on your favorite crime scene drama.   

Reviving the “Lesbian Rule” (which Aristotle wrote about, and was proverbial in Shakespeare’s day) can help us handle a new kind of weaponized-math threat (that Cathy O’Neil calls “Weapons of Math Destruction”).

If you don’t learn this one lesson, you’ll not only never be good at science, you’ll never learn anything new. “Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong […]

Psychopathy and sadism play a prominent role among those who choose to take it up. 

1.5 million children die each year from preventable diseases arising from poor sanitation systems. That’s why some of the world’s top scientists are working to make a 21st-century toilet without links to water, energy, or sewer lines, and which costs users under $0.05 a day.

A new study suggests implanted pig cells may alleviate symptoms of Parkinson’s disease.

Frank Ostaseski is a Buddhist teacher and leading thinker in end-of-life care. This is what he’s learnt about appreciating life while you have it, and being truly present.

Just like alcohol, nicotine and other narcotics, sugar tickles our dopamine receptors in just the right way, inspiring our brain’s reward system. How will this end for us?

We’ve come so far since 2015; what do we know about dark matter now that we didn’t know then? Back in 2015, the dark matter situation was pretty straightforward: the large-scale […]

Someday an implant may help the neurologically impaired overcome a damaged memory.