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People think that unhappiness causes our minds to wander, but what if the causation goes the other way?
Water on Mars is key for human survival on the Red Planet, not just for drinking but for growing food and making fuel and oxygen.
It marks a breakthrough in using gene editing to treat diseases.
A new bridge joins a divided Croatia, but it cuts Bosnia out of Europe — literally and figuratively. A bridge meant to unite also divides.
Inequality should be measured in terms of the time it takes for us to earn the money to buy the things we need. And everyone is getting wealthier.
Everyone has pondered what they would do with an extra hour a day. Would they get more sleep or spend more time with family? Spend time on a side project […]
Hormonal birth control for women may elevate the risk of depression and suicide, but so does pregnancy itself.
U.S. nuclear power plants are built to survive external attacks. Even missiles or a commercial aircraft strike would not cause a meltdown or radiation leak.
Hidden variables aren’t ruled out, but they can’t get rid of quantum weirdness. Ever since the discovery of the bizarre behavior of quantum systems, we’ve been forced to reckon with […]
Our Universe requires dark matter in order to make sense of things, astrophysically. Could massive photons do the trick?
The Universe isn’t just expanding, the expansion is also accelerating. If that’s true, how will the Milky Way and Andromeda eventually merge?
Want some crazy space phenomena? You don’t have to leave the neighborhood for it.
According to Tolkien, fantasy requires a deep imagination known as “sub-creation.” And the genre reflects a fundamental truth of being human.
With JWST, Chandra, and gravitational lensing combined, evidence has emerged for the earliest black hole ever. And wow, is it a surprise!
Sometimes, going “deeper” doesn’t reveal the answers you seek. By viewing more Universe with better precision, ESA’s Euclid mission shines.
Some economists predict China’s economy will overtake the U.S. economy by 2028.
Our economy is dominated by middlemen, including huge companies such as Walmart and Amazon. There are many benefits to going direct instead.
You’re probably already in a complex adaptive system. You may as well learn how to be effective in one.
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Civilization is facing an existential threat from climate change. Will we humans make it? Does anyone in the universe make it?
In special relativity, the statement that two events happened at the same time is meaningless.
The strongest tests of curved space are only possible around the lowest-mass black holes of all. Their small event horizons are the key.
Game theory is a unique combination of math and psychology. Its applications turn up everywhere, from nuclear war to Tinder to game shows.
And the one step we can take to show extraterrestrials we’re figuring it out. Every year, Earth’s meteor showers accomplish two important tasks. This composite photograph shows a large number of […]
If you said “with the Big Bang,” congratulations: that was our best answer as of ~1979. Here’s what we’ve learned in all the time since.
Galaxies can have regions both hotter and colder than the background radiation of the Universe. When we talk about the depths of space, we get this picture in our heads […]
When three wise men gifted baby Jesus with gold, frankincense, and myrrh, they had no idea one was made from colliding neutron stars.
Where did the “seed” magnetic field come from in the first place?