Too many people still view stay-at-home dads as feckless deadbeats, but their acceptance is an important step toward gender equality.
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If you ask your maps app to find “restaurants that aren’t McDonald’s,” you won’t like the result.
For relatives who live far apart, holiday rituals may be the glue that holds the family together.
When you don’t have enough clues to bring your detective story to a close, you should expect that your educated guesses will all be wrong.
Why does dark matter, if it doesn’t dissipate energy, become gravitationally bound at all? One of the most puzzling components of the Universe has to be dark matter. Although we have […]
We haven’t discovered life beyond our Solar System yet, but we’re closer than ever before. Over the past 30 years, we’ve gone from zero exoplanets to thousands. With each new […]
“It doesn’t erase what happened to you. It just changes the impact it has on your life.”
The platform experiments with letting users decide what content needs flagging.
Whatever’s lurking out there, it isn’t all, or even mostly, normal matter. When it comes to the Universe, it’s only natural to wonder what, exactly, it is that makes everything up. […]
Ultraviolet LED lights could soon be used to help disinfect air and surfaces in buildings, planes, subways and other spaces.
A new survey, the DESI Legacy Imaging Survey, has found more lenses than all others put together. One of Einstein’s most revolutionary predictions is that mass bends light. During a […]
“Hubble’s Law” is only an approximation, and breaks down when we need it most. From anywhere in the Universe, you can choose to look out at any other galaxy that’s present. […]
Going to smaller and smaller distance scales reveals more fundamental views of nature, which means if we can understand and describe the smallest scales, we can build our way to […]
An exclusive interview with physicist Lee Smolin reveals how abandoning Einstein’s dream may have been a terrible mistake.
A pragmatic approach to fixing an imbalanced system.
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The largest moon around our last planet didn’t originate with Neptune. When it comes to the moons of our Solar System, there’s only one planet that doesn’t fit in with our […]
An analysis of the gravitational wave data from black hole mergers show that the event horizon area, and entropy, always increases.
Are we really only a moment away from “The Singularity,” a technological epoch that will usher in a new era in human evolution?
New book explores a future populated with robot helpers.
Germany finds itself once again allowing a murderous dictator to run rampant in Europe, though this time it is due to incompetence and technophobia rather than malice.
Could a pill make you more moral? Should you take it if it could?
The proposal calls for the American public to draft two candidates to lead the executive branch: one from the center-left, the other from the center-right.
In 2006, the IAU demoted Pluto. Here’s what we know today. In 2006, the last planet in our Solar System suffered an unforgettable insult, as Pluto — known for generations as our ninth […]
By digging deep, we could harness enough energy to power generations to come. But it involves fracking.
Robot developers adapt the behavior of worm “blobs”.
The main bioactive compound in catnip seems to protect cats from mosquitoes. It might protect humans, too.
Circle spoofing is an advanced form of GPS manipulation – but nobody knows exactly how, or why.
Your breathing rhythm influences a wide range of behaviors, cognition, and emotion.
Understanding “why” may be the key to unlocking an AI’s imagination.
The associations of civil society give us freedom to find systems that meet our needs.
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