The controversial theory about magic mushrooms and human evolution gets a much-needed update.
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For many years, cosmologists have claimed the Universe is 13.8 billion years old. A new paper says no, it’s 26.7 billion. How do we decide?
Are you unhappy with how various events in your life turned out? Perhaps, in a parallel Universe, things worked out very differently.
The National Ignition Facility just repeated, and improved upon, their earlier demonstration of nuclear fusion. Now, the true race begins.
Passing chunks of ice can fertilize ocean waters and play a role in the planet’s carbon cycle.
NASA’s space telescopes and observatories bring humanity unrivaled science images and scientific discoveries. Here’s what should be next.
You’ve spent almost a decade gaining extremely specialized skills. But that’s ok; your value is greater than you realize.
Day trading has the potential to yield incredible profits, but without a time machine, you’re unlikely to achieve them.
Awe-inspiring moments can be found in our daily lives, and they have surprising benefits for our health and sense of well-being.
Neutrons can be stable when bound into an atomic nucleus, but free neutrons decay away in mere minutes. So how are neutron stars stable?
Don’t argue with science. Just do it.
A Carrington-magnitude event would kill millions, and cause trillions of dollars in damage. Sadly, it isn’t even the worst-case scenario.
Each of our three nearest stars might have an Earth-like planet in orbit around it. Here’s what we’ll learn when we finally observe it.
Most exoplanets have been found around single stars via the transit method. But binary star systems might contain even more of them.
In all the Universe, only a few particles are eternally stable. The photon, the quantum of light, has an infinite lifetime. Or does it?
Society treats teenagers as if they’re a problem to be solved, but the truth is that we have to prepare them to solve our problems. It’s time that we change the narrative.
“The digital HQ – the digital infrastructure that supports productivity and collaboration – actually became more important than the physical HQ.”
The way to understand the earliest moments of creation is to recreate those conditions and study them. Why would we stop now?
It’s all well and good to discuss how our humanity evolved – but what even is humanity?
For some reason, when we talk about the age of stars, galaxies, and the Universe, we use “years” to measure time. Can we do better?
Earth is not a benign mother. We have begun to witness what happens when it unleashes its fury.
As particles travel through the Universe, there’s a speed limit to how fast they’re allowed to go. No, not the speed of light: below it.
Dennis Klatt developed trailblazing text-to-speech systems before losing his own voice to cancer.
Smoke taint from wildfires is gross, even to wine amateurs.
The divers spend their waking hours either under hundreds of feet of water on the ocean floor or squeezed into an area the size of a restaurant booth.
Cross-disciplinary cooperation is needed to save civilization.
Already 14 billion miles from the Sun, Voyager 1 is speeding away at 38,000 mph.
Their goal is a digital model of the Earth that depicts climate change in all of its complexity.