Listening to some songs can cause a powerful physiological response known as “frisson.” What is it, and why does it happen?
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Only have sex with a person you love — a novel concept!
Nuclear fusion has long been seen as the future of energy. As the NIF now passes the breakeven point, how close are we to our ultimate goal?
The base rate fallacy may help to explain low reproducibility in various fields of science.
Why do you feel, think, and behave in the ways you do? Here are five frameworks psychologists use to answer those questions.
About the project The goal of driving more progress across the world—scientifically, politically, economically, socially, etc—is one shared by many. And yet, debates about the best way to maximize progress […]
Protein fibrils accumulate in the brain during neurodegeneration. Cryo-electron microscopy has now uncovered fibrils of an unexpected protein.
It’s like combining Google Translate with a time machine.
Humanity is never fully in control of its creations. This lesson from Mary Shelley has remained relevant for over 200 years.
Pain makes sense from an evolutionary perspective. What’s puzzling is why so many of us choose to seek out painful experiences.
Successful alpha leadership is more about caring and healing than dog-eat-dog supremacy.
It isn’t just identical particles that can be entangled, but even those with fundamentally different properties interfere with each other.
According to surveys, approximately half of artificial intelligence experts believe that general AI will emerge by 2060.
Due to a crust of carbon, the absence of oxygen, and constant bombardment from meteorites, the planet Mercury may be littered with diamonds.
The COSMOS-Web has just finalized their release of their full field: larger and deeper than any other JWST program. Here’s what’s inside.
With stars, gas, and dark matter, galaxies come in a great array of sizes. This new one, Ursa Major III/UNIONS 1, is the smallest by far.
Many capabilities contribute to effective change leadership, but four stand out as vitally important at a macro level.
Photons come in every wavelength you can imagine. But one particular quantum transition makes light at precisely 21 cm, and it’s magical.
People who buy iPhones are not, it seems, masters of their own devices.
A new technique for analyzing networks can tell who wields soft power.
The cycles of life all rely on the dynamism of the Earth’s crust.
If you gave me $400 and I gave you $3.15, would you consider yourself wealthier? That’s a financial analogy for the supposed fusion power “breakthrough.”
Life finds a way — particularly if it has a moon.
Science writer Matt Ridley joins us to discuss how “Darwin’s strangest idea” makes us all a bit feather-brained (in a good way).
Is the time crystal really an otherworldly revolution, leveraging quantum computing that will change physics forever?
Stoicism is a big deal right now, but it has some major flaws. Here’s why you might want to hold off on becoming a Stoic.
Our huge, expanding Universe may truly be infinite. But if the set of possible quantum outcomes is also infinite, which “infinity” wins?
The “Mind After Midnight” hypothesis aims to explain why night owls tend to suffer more negative health outcomes.
Why can’t more rainwater be collected for the long, dry spring and summer when it’s needed?