The jail environment teaches the animals that approaching humans results in a boring and annoying experience.
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Who doesn’t love a little existential fear every once in a while?
Pythagoras may have believed that the entire cosmos was constructed out of right triangles.
There are so many problems, all across planet Earth, that harm and threaten humanity. Why invest in researching the Universe?
Two different studies provide further evidence of the efficacy of psychedelics in treating depression.
Two mounds of rice and a tiny flag in a sea of curry is enough to re-heat an old territorial conflict.
“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it.”
Every power source involves trade-offs. Given the challenges of increasing demand and climate change, what is the future of energy?
Water may be far more abundant on the lunar surface than previously thought.
Awe is a powerful force, a fact that is both exciting and terrifying.
From consciousness to nothingness and beyond, these questions still baffle the brightest minds. Will they ever be solved?
How do you get usable phosphorus into a system? A new study suggests lightning can do the trick.
A second Enlightenment would have a far bigger task: Saving civilization itself.
Ultracold gases in the lab could help scientists better understand the universe.
Unless you confront your theory with what’s actually out there in the Universe, you’re playing in the sandbox, not engaging in science.
The search for worlds outside our solar system has just turned up a planet, TOI-2257 b, with a truly extreme orbit.
The double-slit experiment, hundreds of years after it was first performed, still holds the key mystery at the heart of quantum physics.
If more people decide to apply pressure through their choices, slowly but surely we would reach climate change herd immunity.
Thales may have known the famous theorem perhaps as much as half a century before Pythagoras.
The power tower has superior physics but inferior economics.
Sometimes breaking a rule is the ethical thing to do.
Airports are like mini-cities: they have places of worship, policing, hotels, fine dining, shopping, and mass transit.
While Mars is known as a frozen, red planet today, it has all the evidence we could ask for of a watery past, lasting for approximately the first 1.5 billion […]
Linguists discover 30 sounds that may have allowed communication before words existed.
Are we really only a moment away from “The Singularity,” a technological epoch that will usher in a new era in human evolution?
Seawater is raising salt levels in coastal woodlands along the entire Atlantic Coastal Plain, from Maine to Florida.
The neutrino is the most ghostly, rarely-interacting particle in all the Standard Model. How well can we truly make “beams” out of them?
Every Christmas could be the last Christmas.
Lasers, mirrors, and computational advances can all work together to push ground-based astronomy past the limits of our atmosphere.
Break into London Zoo? Illegal, but it would improve the London Circle Walk