With liquid water, an energy source, and the perfect raw ingredients, Enceladus might be the holy grail we’ve been seeking. This article is written by contributing author Jesse Shanahan. Jesse is […]
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Philosopher Daniel Dennett believes AI should never become conscious — and no, it’s not because of the robopocalypse.
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Did you guess ‘resonance’? Guess again. “At least six lamp posts were snapped off while I watched. A few minutes later, I saw a side girder bulge out. But, though the […]
The science of selflessness.
Phobos and Deimos may have had another, inner, much larger companion! “The larger inner moons fall back to Mars after about 5 million years due to the tidal pull of […]
Our utopian vision of the future is typically less more and more leisure. But if advancing technology really lessens the importance of our careers in the future, is this something we could actually adjust to?
Get lost in a good book. Time and again, reading has been shown to make us healthier, smarter, and more empathic.
Plus, how the mycelium network’s destruction could, physically, actually end life in the Universe. Imagine taking a seemingly impossible journey: traveling to another Universe on a network of biological spores […]
Earth is pretty much the limit of how large you can get and still be rocky. Anything much larger, and you’re a gas giant. “How vast those Orbs must be, and […]
Why the 2017 Nobel Prize isn’t the end, but the start, of something really, really big. “Wormholes are a gravitational phenomena. Or imaginary gravitational phenomena, as the case may be.” –Jonathan […]
If space were really curved due to matter and energy, we should see light deflect. A solar eclipse provides the perfect opportunity. “Eddington had needed to make significant corrections to […]
The technology behind wireless charging or inductive charging was discovered by Nikola Tesla in the 1890s and utilizes an electromagnetic field to transfer energy between two objects. In chargers, an […]
The deep dive into the mirror Universe, and the ethics of how we deal with purity and diversity, is just getting started. Life in the mirror Universe isn’t easy for anyone. […]
Researchers used a technique from biology to illustrate how Pacific Asian cultures developed.
On August 21st, 2017, a total eclipse will hit 14 states. Here’s your guide to everything you need to know. “…and the Sun has perished out of heaven, and an […]
Jess Bering sees our ability to summon arousing recollections as the reason human sexuality is unique among animals.
Albert Einstein’s famous thought experiments led to groundbreaking ideas.
Even though we’ve never seen them, here’s what we already know. “Suddenly whole new programs open up, things you can do that you could never do before. It’d be great scientifically, […]
For autonomous self-driving cars to truly take over, every road needs to be digitally mapped.
The only way the furies are stopped is by “giving them a place of honor.”
The United States of America is as divided now as it has ever been. Why is this? One author suggests that it is because we have never been one united nation, but 11 differing ones. Founded for different reasons and striving towards conflicting goals, can they ever learn to get along again?
New research at MIT might be a game-changer for Alzheimer’s. But you don’t have to wait to strengthen your brain’s memory system.
First step: recognizing it’s a continual process, says Robert Wright in his new book, Why Buddhism is True.
The biological process they go through is similar to how yeast turns sugar into alcohol.
Does the thought of death make you anxious? A new study suggests that the fear of mortality isn’t really about the afterlife at all.
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault holds the world’s largest collection of seeds, for safekeeping.
The latest challenger to dark matter’s throne may not be so difficult to knock off, after all. This post was written by Sabine Hossenfelder. Sabine is a theoretical physicist specialized in […]
Here’s why you should try to fit less—not more—into each day.
Three massive mergers threaten to put control of the world’s food in dangerously few hands.
The NASA probe to Saturn went out in a blaze of glory last week.
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