The newest record-setting quasar houses an enormous black hole. No one knows how. In every scientific field, we’re always on the lookout for whatever new discovery might reveal what’s currently beyond […]
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Loneliness may change how our body responds to stress.
Gun safety laws have a historical precedent in the 1939 court case U.S. v Miller.
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It will take a national effort to get it done. Here’s how. Over the past six months — a full half of a year — the United States has suffered more deaths and illnesses due […]
Everything else in the universe is either a particle or field. Dark energy behaves as neither, and it may be a property inherent to space itself.
According to the analysis, the more yoga sessions a person did each week, the less they struggled with depressive symptoms.
The bonding experience is promoted by important neurological changes.
If the idea of freedom bound Camus and Sartre philosophically, then the fight for justice united them politically.
On the morning of March 31, 2020, these three worlds will be at their mutual closest in 20 years. For the past few weeks, Mars, Saturn, and Jupiter have all shone […]
A new study suggests that an old tuberculosis vaccine may reduce the severity of coronavirus cases.
Anastasia lives alone in perfect harmony with nature – or so the story goes – and nature serves her devotedly.
“The Expanse” is the best vision I’ve ever seen of a space-faring future that may be just a few generations away.
How do we make sense of an inflection point as we’re living it? How do we build more resilience into ourselves and our systems moving forward? In this interactive session, […]
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Symptoms of mental illness in children are often dismissed as “going through a phase.”
The “overview effect,” experienced by astronauts when they view the Earth from outer space, irrevocably changes your perspective as a human.
We used to think the Big Bang meant the universe began from a singularity. Nearly 100 years later, we’re not so sure.
Astrophysicists calculate the likely number of civilization out there capable of communicating with us.
Nutrisystem is a smarter weight-loss program that users enjoy.
If a patient requires a ventilator, a new study finds they have a low chance of survival.
New study figures out how stars produce gamma ray bursts.
How does one supernova get so bright, so energetic, and so massive? It’s a spectacular mystery to solve. On February 22, 2016, one of humanity’s automated sky-scanning telescopes — the Pan-STARRS Survey for […]
How Nobel Prize winner physicist Lev Landau ranked the best physics minds of his generation.
Researchers at the University of Copenhagen might have discovered a cure.
The 385-million-year-old fossils show that trees evolved modern features millions of years earlier than previously estimated.
The images themselves will take your breath away, but the science we can extract from them is truly revolutionary and spectacular. Dark matter may be one of the most mysterious […]
Recent American presidents have all faced a crisis of legitimacy in a trend that threatens the health of our democracy.
And what might we learn as we collect new, never-before-seen data? If you took one of history’s top scientists from 100 years ago and dropped them into today’s world, what […]
One woman’s viral roadmap from fear to learning to growth.
Apple sold its first iPod in 2001, and six years later it introduced the iPhone, which ushered in a new era of personal technology.