A team at the University of Basel discovered a connection between antidepressants and REM sleep.
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Life is absurd, that detail can be the start of a great many things.
Mathematics is the most useful tool we have for understanding the Universe. But it doesn’t answer to anything on its own. At the frontiers of theoretical physics, many of the most […]
Turns out chitin is quite useful when you need a wrench.
From one serendipitously fortunate system, we gain a new window into the expanding Universe’s biggest conundrum. We’ve known our Universe is expanding for ~90 years, yet unsolved mysteries persist. The […]
What is more important, that a treatment helps keep people healthy or that it meshes with our morals?
Researchers say that moral self-licensing occurs “because good deeds make people feel secure in their moral self-regard.”
We know it couldn’t have began from a singularity. So how small could it have been at the absolute minimum?
Two new studies shed light on the road ahead.
The Universe’s idea of a ‘typical star’ has changed dramatically over time. When you look out at the Universe today, you’re not seeing it exactly as it is at one particular […]
And after years of mystery, we finally know where they come from. Here on Earth, thunderstorms and accompanying lightning strikes represent tremendous releases of energy. It was way back in 2011 […]
Sharing QAnon disinformation is harming the children devotees purport to help.
How close are we to human teleportation? Successes in quantum teleportation experiments abound.
Research from Ohio State finds that acetaminophen affects our emotions.
Since 2015, the Women in the Workplace report has evaluated the successes of women in corporate America alongside the challenges they face. Sponsored by McKinsey & Co. and Lean In, […]
NASA’s New Horizons is the most distant technologically advanced observatory ever. And that makes all the difference. When you look at an object that’s very distant from you, how well […]
New cancer-scanning technology reveals a previously unknown detail of human anatomy.
The Crab Nebula goes back to 1054, opening a window into our cosmic past. On July 4, 1054, Chinese astronomers recorded a “guest star” in the Taurus constellation. A ‘guest star’ […]
The majority of the matter in our Universe isn’t made of any of the particles in the Standard Model. Could the axion save the day?
The combination of charge conjugation, parity, and time-reversal symmetry is known as CPT. And it must never be broken. Ever. The ultimate goal of physics is to accurately describe, as precisely […]
The history of the music industry parallels that of many industries and institutions in the U.S. Many, that is, except for education.
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America’s educational system has become frayed by lackluster civic engagement.
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Work that can break down the body can also break down the mind.
A new paper suggests a primordial black hole may be making things weird at the edge of our solar system.
After more than two decades of precision measurements, we’ve now reached the “gold standard” for how the pieces don’t fit.
If you want to know what the Universe is like, you have to look at it in the right way. Only by observing it can we know what the Universe is […]
One look at the uncertainties and the assumptions changes the story tremendously. Is there intelligent life out there in the Milky Way beyond our own Solar System? If so, how […]
Maybe 100% of stars don’t have planets, after all. When stars form in the Universe, they’re created in giant bursts. A stellar nursery in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy […]
A heated debate is occurring at the University of Miami.
One image can give over 100 times the data we now get from Hubble. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990, revealed the previously unseen Universe. The most distant galaxy ever […]