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Implicit bias may be outside your conscious control, but that doesn’t mean change is.
The James Webb Space Telescope finally could answer the age-old question of whether we are alone in the universe.
The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter recently captured images that could help scientists better under the mysterious physics of our Sun.
As droughts threaten water supplies across the planet, some municipalities aim to utilize an untapped resource: sewage water.
We pretend as if economic sanctions are a peaceful way to coerce others into behaving. In reality, they are a potent tool of modern warfare.
The laws of physics obey certain symmetries and defy others. It’s theoretically tempting to add new ones, but reality doesn’t agree.
“At that time, it was just a wild idea, […] that instead of just a loss of consciousness, anesthetics may do something to the brain that actually turns pain off.”
Even with all the recent impacts we’ve seen, it might be more “foe” than “friend” to us.
A new study calls the technique “location spoofing.”
This representation of the Bamum kingdom is a rare example of early 20th-century indigenous African cartography.
In the night sky for March of 2022, only stars and the Moon, not planets, will greet you. The real show, however, arrives just before dawn.
Evidence shows that information is transmitted via “complex contagion.”
EV charging stations are the most widespread alternative to gas and diesel pumps. Each alternative has its own hotspots and “deserts.”
Every December, the Geminid meteor shower reaches its peak. Its 2021 show will be spectacular, but only if you do it right.
Think there are habitable super-Earths out there? Think again. Here in our Solar System, we have two very distinct types of planets: small, terrestrial, rocky worlds, with thin (or no) atmospheres […]
American students are being compelled to specialize earlier and earlier. Here’s what it takes to build a successful physics foundation.
As the demonstrations grew, so did the internet service disruptions.
With the right material at the right temperature and a magnetic track, physics really does allow perpetual motion without energy loss.
Marcus Tullius Cicero is widely regarded as one of the most gifted orators in human history. His writings can teach us a lot about the lost art of public speaking.
Why power generated through nuclear fusion will be the future, but not the present, solution to humanity’s energy needs.
Today’s young people are intelligent and kind, but they are overworked and burned out.
Paradoxically, we lose wars because the world is peaceful and the U.S. is powerful.
You can’t spot a liar just by looking — but psychologists are zeroing in on methods that might actually work.
Stress – and how you manage it – is catching.
Elephants mourn the dead, dolphins give names to each other, and insects can recognize faces. The animal world is much smarter than we think.
Filaments, hundreds of millions of light-years long, were just caught spinning. In our own cosmic backyard, everything we see spins, rotates, and revolves in some fashion or other. Our planet […]
The ‘Charleston Loophole’ has likely allowed thousands of guns to end up in the hands of people who would have failed a federal background check.
The thrills and horrors of strange heavenly bodies condensed into one attractive snapshot.