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“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it.”
Negative thoughts? Here’s how to rewire your mind
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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.
Because there’s not enough Walden pond to go around.
The largest moon in our Solar System, often overlooked, is a water-rich world. Does that mean life? Here on Earth, life took hold very early on in our planet’s history, and […]
Parents want the best for their kids, but resilience helps children better cope with life’s unavoidable challenges.
AI tried to write music. It wasn’t exactly The Beatles.
We once thought the Moon was completely airless, but it turns out it has an atmosphere, after all. Even wilder: It has a tail of its own.
More than any other nation, Japan tends to feel comfortable with the idea of humanoid robots entering the home.
With almost every shovel of sand shifted in Egypt, another artifact comes to light.
Despite a reputation for catastrophe and cat killings, curiosity is a beneficial drive that improves our lives and well-being.
Life is possible because of asymmetries, such as an imbalance between matter and antimatter and the “handedness” (chirality) of molecules.
Are you in love? Trust your mother over your brain.
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Practically all of the matter we see and interact with is made of atoms, which are mostly empty space. Then why is reality so… solid?
A second Enlightenment would have a far bigger task: Saving civilization itself.
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.
Financial illiteracy can become a significant problem. But it’s a problem with a clear solution.
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 […]
Three cutting-edge techniques – the gene-editing tool CRISPR, fluorescent proteins and optogenetics – were all inspired by nature.
Quantum communication offers a surer path to sending an interstellar message, as well as receiving one. But can we do it?
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.
Astronomers possibly solve the mystery of how the enormous Oort cloud, with over 100 billion comet-like objects, was formed.
As a physician, John Pringle helped reinvent hygiene; as a husband, he destroyed a woman’s life with his abuse.
Humans are already so integrated with technology that the dream of transhumanism is a reality. Can we handle what comes next?
Role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons offer a valuable insight: Life is about shifting labels.
Here’s how it works.
The Universe isn’t just expanding, the expansion is also accelerating. If that’s true, how will the Milky Way and Andromeda eventually merge?
Singapore is a breeding ground of truly green buildings.