Even though the brain is only 2% of our total body mass, it consumes up to 25% of our energy.
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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 […]
If you think you know how an astronomical nova works, buckle up. You’re in for a ride like you never expected.
Philosopher and logician Kurt Gödel upended our understanding of mathematics and truth.
Disgusting behavior is often crucial to survival.
More than any other of Einstein’s equations, E = mc² is the most recognizable to people. But what does it all mean?
Meaningful pictures are assembled from meaningless noise.
A team of scientists managed to install onto a smartphone a spectrometer that’s capable of identifying specific molecules — with cheap parts you can buy online.
The system is basically facial recognition technology, but for cars.
The Taupo volcano was responsible for one of the most violent eruptions on record.
With JWST, Chandra, and gravitational lensing combined, evidence has emerged for the earliest black hole ever. And wow, is it a surprise!
New stamp-sized ultrasound adhesives produce clear images of heart, lungs, and other internal organs.
Sometimes, going “deeper” doesn’t reveal the answers you seek. By viewing more Universe with better precision, ESA’s Euclid mission shines.
Time for a status check before watching “Moon Knight.”
We all know that work-life balance can be difficult, but do we make it harder on ourselves by how we choose to conceptualize the idea? More specifically, is the concept […]
The history of money is a history of convenience, and spending has never been easier than it is today.
“You gotta know when to fold ’em.”
The Universe isn’t just expanding, the expansion is also accelerating. If that’s true, how will the Milky Way and Andromeda eventually merge?
From “Thompson’s violinist” to the “Experience Machine,” these thought experiments will throw your mind for a loop.
Scientists have discovered enzymes from several plastic-eating bacteria. So, why are our oceans still full of plastic pollution?
Business leaders know they must prepare for technological upheavals in the years ahead. But keeping up-to-date on new technologies—to say nothing of understanding their complexities and forecasting those shifts—is an […]
Before Herbert came along and wrote Dune, few if any sci-fi stories were set in fully realized universes.
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.
The Copernican principle states that Earth is an ordinary planet, but that does not mean that life is ordinary in the universe.
While Mars is known as a frozen, red planet today, it has all the evidence we could ask for of a watery past, lasting for approximately the first 1.5 billion […]
Psychologists often view relationship power imbalances through three unique dynamics.
The world needs a moral defense of progress based in humanism and agency.
Humans who’ve lived through the same events often remember them differently. Could quantum physics be responsible?
For decades people have arranged to freeze their bodies after death, dreaming of resurrection by advanced future medicine. Many met a fate far grislier than death.