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Which philosopher had the strongest arguments? David Hume, who raised some of the best challenges for science, ethics, and religion.
Research is for the experts. Listen to them instead. “Research both sides and make up your own mind.” It’s simple, straightforward, common sense advice. And when it comes to issues like […]
Scalars, vectors, and tensors come up all the time in science. But what are they? One of the major goals of science is to describe our reality as accurately as possible. […]
There could have been life on Mars in the past, but that’s only the beginning of the story. For as long as humanity has been watching the skies, we’ve been fascinated […]
Even with leap years and long-term planning, our calendar won’t be good forever. Here’s why, and how to fix it.
1859’s Carrington event gave us a preview of how catastrophic the Sun could be for humanity. But it could get even worse than we imagined.
And why, even at its faintest, it always outshines every other star and planet. If you’ve been looking to the west after sunset recently, you may have noticed that there’s one […]
Chemical energy, where electrons transition in atoms, powers the reactions we see. But two other types hold more promise than all the rest.
Scientists are solving the problem of costly energy storage.
Quantum physics isn’t quite magic, but it requires an entirely novel set of rules to make sense of the quantum universe.
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 […]
A thought experiment from 1867 leads scientists to design a groundbreaking information engine.
By 2050, there may be more plastic than fish in the sea.
In America, Cup Noodles has succeeded by hiding its Japanese roots.
Nearly 90% of the world’s blind live in low-income countries.
In one of the ocean’s most lifeless places, scientists discover and resuscitate ancient organisms.
Satire and an inflated sense of self-importance collide in a series of maps that goes back more than 100 years in American history.
Researchers think they know how a group of ancient sloths, who died thousands of years ago in Ecuador, met their untimely end.
William Shatner is going to space because Jeff Bezos loves Star Trek.
What’s to blame for the recent uptick in containership accidents?
These distant cousins of starfish live on sea floors around the globe.
Migrating our planet to a safer orbit might be the only way to preserve Earth after all the ice melts.
The 1998 hit is making a comeback. Stop what you’re doing and watch the original.
Perhaps downhill and cross-country skiers don’t face the fate of potters, typesetters and saddlers, but their situation is certainly unclear.
They’re not just a theoretical prediction of quantum gravity. They should be detectable, too. The Universe, if you look at it closely and carefully enough, is fundamentally quantum in nature. […]
In 2006, Pluto was demoted in a very controversial decision. Unless you ignore nearly all of planetary science, it’ll never be one again.
New studies find the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov is the most “pristine” ever discovered.
Non-avian dinosaurs were thought terrestrially bound, but newly unearthed fossils suggest they conquered prehistoric waters, too.