For the past 150+ years, the big ones have all missed us. But at some point, our good luck will run out.
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From consciousness to nothingness and beyond, these questions still baffle the brightest minds. Will they ever be solved?
There’s a speed limit to the Universe: the speed of light in a vacuum. Want to beat the speed of light? Try going through a medium!
Could we all attain this superpower?
The same technology behind the COVID-19 vaccines may enable the first damage-reversing heart attack cure.
Sophia, the humanoid robot, is not just mirroring emotions; she’s leading a revolution in emotional intelligence.
Whether they’re gas giants or rocky planets makes all the difference for life. Over the past 30 years, we went from not knowing if there were planets like ours around other […]
Many have argued that free will is an illusion, but science does not support that.
From honing the art of perception to checking cognitive biases, here are a few techniques employees can learn in critical thinking training.
Quantum mechanics forces us to toss out the old, reliable ways in which we make sense of our everyday reality.
Glueballs are an unusual, unconfirmed Standard Model prediction, suggesting bound states of gluons alone exist. We just found our first one.
How can we understand mysterious planets like Jupiter? Use giant lasers!
The Arabic word fatwa can mean “explanation” or “clarification.”
The more social behaviors a voice-user interface exhibits, the more likely people are to trust it, engage with it, and consider it to be competent.
At a fundamental level, only a few particles and forces govern all of reality. How do their combinations create human consciousness?
There’s a whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on beneath the single plate of Mars.
The first stars in the Universe were made of pristine material: hydrogen and helium alone. Once they die, nothing escapes their pollution.
By exposing people to small doses of misinformation and encouraging them to develop resistance strategies, “prebunking” can fight fake news.
Life is possible because of asymmetries, such as an imbalance between matter and antimatter and the “handedness” (chirality) of molecules.
Unless you confront your theory with what’s actually out there in the Universe, you’re playing in the sandbox, not engaging in science.
A new episode of “Your Brain on Money” illuminates the strange world of consumer behavior and explores how brands can wreak havoc on our ability to make rational decisions.
Reductionism is a successful way to explain the universe, but it cannot replace experience. This is part of the mystery of life.
From 260-year-old ciphers to the most recent Zodiac Killer solution, these unbreakable codes just needed time.
Experts say we should only be working 15 hours per week, so why are some working 80?
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Climate change and artificial intelligence pose substantial — and possibly existential — problems for humanity to solve. Can we?
50 years ago, Stephen Hawking showed that black holes emit radiation and eventually decay away. That fate may now apply to everything.
When we see pictures from Hubble or JWST, they show the Universe in a series of brilliant colors. But what do those colors really tell us?
If you had a clear western horizon, you had your shot at this view! On September 9, 2021, the Moon and Venus nearly overlapped. A simulated view of the post-sunset skies […]
A crowdsourced “final exam” for AI promises to test LLMs like never before. Here’s how the idea, and its implementation, dooms us to fail.