Even the ones hunting for aliens aren’t excited. Here’s the reason why. In this world, there are very few issues more polarizing than the notion of aliens. For as long as […]
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Three ideas could help create the police force that Americans want.
Just say no to artist’s illustrations. This is what the Universe actually looks like. The Universe we observe often surpasses our greatest imaginings. This 20-year time-lapse of stars near the center […]
Discovering fossilized insects is difficult, but a new find suggests a unique place to look.
Ingenuity is remarkable. But these 5 exploration ideas are revolutionary. Telescopes are our initial tools for revealing and studying foreign worlds. Hubble images of Mars, particularly around the regions with […]
The tiny swimmers appear to transmit signals that “persuade” the female body to have a baby.
In an excerpt from her recent book, the behavior geneticist Kathryn Paige Harden carefully explores a topic that’s often considered taboo: how genetics affect life outcomes.
We think of physical reality as what objectively exists, independent of any observer. But relativity and quantum physics say otherwise.
The answer to this question depends on how you define “freedom.”
As time goes on, dark energy makes distant galaxies recede from us ever faster in our expanding Universe. But nothing truly disappears.
Many organizations are just scratching the surface of what their talent is capable of, but reskilling programs help unlock untapped potential.
A black woman most have never heard of made GPS possible. Over the span of a single lifetime, the world has changed in ways that would have been virtually unimaginable […]
From succubi to aliens, stories of abductions or other unsettling encounters have been with us for millennia. What explains them?
No matter how accurately you place two Plinko chips, you cannot count on the same outcome twice. Of all the pricing games on the iconic television show The Price Is Right, […]
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 […]
For consumers of festive beverages, the news is bad: this holiday season, Guinness may not be on tap and glass for bottling wine is scarce. Climate disasters, like British Columbia’s floods, have further weakened already […]
Baruch Spinoza suggests how to lead a virtuous and blessed life.
User-driven sites lead to user-based bias.
The cause of Alzheimer’s is still not fully understood, but we might be able to vaccinate against it anyway.
Learning another language might make you richer, sexier, and smarter. Why not try it?
A new study found that people who scored high in certain psychopathic traits are more likely to limit head movements.
A new study makes a compelling case for the origin of unexplained masses of underground rock causing changes to the Earth’s magnetic field.
In her 2020 book, “The Alchemy of Us,” Ainissa Ramirez explores how important material inventions shaped the course of human experience.
A new study found similarities between the human brain and the cosmic network of galaxies.
A recently identified stage of sleep common to narcoleptics is a fertile source of creativity.
How one startup plans to use “death rays” for good instead of evil.
Using physics, Ross Chastain floored it during the final turn, scraping the wall and passing 5 cars to advance to the NASCAR championship.
If we’re migrating slowly away, is our speed changing, too? Every year, planet Earth completes one revolution around the Sun while spinning on its axis. On a year-to-year basis, our […]
Even though no human has stepped foot on the Moon’s surface in 50 years, the evidence of our presence there remains unambiguous.