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The ability is tied to mental health, consciousness, and memory in humans.

When justice isn’t tempered by something such as mercy, forgiveness, or nonviolence, efforts to make society more equitable often backfire.

We’ve been somewhat lucky in the past…

At least 33 cities are sinking by more than 1 cm a year.

In all the Universe, only a few particles are eternally stable. The photon, the quantum of light, has an infinite lifetime. Or does it?

Profanity offers surprising benefits. But why?

Historical analyses reveal that crises almost always yield surprising benefits.

Forget about the terawatt lasers we’re making on Earth. This natural one is thousands of times more powerful than the Sun.

Impossible standards and poor self-understanding are making us miserable.

Since the dawn of history, humans have pondered our ultimate cosmic origins. Now in the 21st century, science has gone beyond the Big Bang.

Unless you confront your theory with what’s actually out there in the Universe, you’re playing in the sandbox, not engaging in science.

Is there any good reason for assigning North and South the way we do, or could we have just as easily done the reverse?

The “first-of-its-kind” archeological find is being reburied despite the fact that researchers haven’t finished studying it.

In 2017, a kilonova sent light and gravitational waves across the Universe. Here on Earth, there was a 1.7 second signal arrival delay. Why?

From honing the art of perception to checking cognitive biases, here are a few techniques employees can learn in critical thinking training. 

For billions of years on Earth, life was limited to simple unicellular, non-differentiated organisms. In a mere flash, that changed forever.

If you want to understand what the Universe is, how it began, evolved, and will eventually end, astrophysics is the only way to go.

An almost 40-year-old theory finally has ‘smoking gun’ evidence for it. During most of their lives, stars burn stably, changing imperceptibly. The rotten egg nebula, at lower right (and shown in […]

Tiny fluctuations in old Kepler data reveals four runaway planets that are reminiscent of Earth.

Spiritual experiences can be explained in terms of a highly evolved brain. But they also can be extremely meaningful.

Every year, scientists like George Church get better at editing the genomes of human beings. But will genome editing help or hurt us?

Quantum mechanics + consciousness: There is nothing better than mixing two great mysteries to produce an even bigger one.

The biases that shape our understanding of the mind.

Scientific journals, which are supposed to be the sacred scriptures of academia, are often full of shoddy research and misinformation.

Remote work is here to stay. Here are a few ways to enhance remote training in a post-pandemic future.

A great many cosmic puzzles still remain unsolved. By embracing a broad and varied approach, particle physics heads toward a bright future.

Today, the star-formation rate across the Universe is a mere trickle: just 3% of what it was at its peak. Here’s what it was like back then.

And why, even at its faintest, it always outshines every other star and planet. If you’ve been looking to the west after sunset recently, you may have noticed that there’s one […]

This small-scale study may have uncovered a new link between the peripheral nerve system and autism.

Fossil Cycad National Monument held America’s richest deposit of petrified cycadeoid plants, until it didn’t.