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Choking under pressure seems to have deep evolutionary roots.
The color of toys has a much deeper effect on children than some parents may realize.
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After it became clear that the world wasn’t 6,000 years old, some proposed that northern peoples had emerged independently from others.
50% of stars are in Sun-like ‘singlet’ systems. The planetary nebulae we see just don’t line up. Around 7 billion years from now, our Sun’s life will end. As the Sun […]
They have held our fascination ever since we first identified their remains.
Like his “Mona Lisa,” Leonardo da Vinci’s “Lady with an Ermine” depicts a woman in a way that flouted the conventions of its time.
Smoke taint from wildfires is gross, even to wine amateurs.
People underestimate their opponent’s capacity to feel basic human sensations. We can short-circuit this impulse through moral reframing and perspective taking.
The sharpest optical images, for now, come from the Hubble Space Telescope. A ground-based technique can make images over 100 times sharper.
We should all pause to appreciate the awe-inspiring beauty of the Universe.
Battery-powered urban aircraft are well within the bounds of technological reality.
The Russian mindset is characterized by cynicism and distrust.
Today, it’s common knowledge, but it took scientists centuries to figure out.
Will all robots think like Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg?
Our chart shows new additions since 1984 that have stuck around.
Wizbang innovations capture the public’s imagination, but thoughtful, incremental development is often more valuable to those in need.
In New Zealand, ambitious Kiwis want to launch a lawn mowing business; in South Africa, it’s cooking gas refills. Start-up dreams vary widely.
Many planets will eventually be devoured by their parent star. For the first time, we caught a star in the act, eating its innermost planet!
Back in the 1930s, Fritz Zwicky postulated the existence of dark matter. No one took it seriously until Vera Rubin’s work: 40 years later.
Mammals have a history stretching back 325 million years. To study that ancient history is to know our own origins.
A placebo-controlled study found that oxytocin seems to significantly reduce romantic jealousy among people in intimate relationships.
The combination of charge conjugation, parity, and time-reversal symmetry is known as CPT. And it must never be broken. Ever.
These ten maps provide a fascinating insight into the impact that soccer (sorry, football) has had worldwide.
Objective reality exists, but what can you know about it that isn’t subjective. According to some neuroscientists, not much.
Although a great many unidentified sights have been seen in the skies, none have conclusively demonstrated the presence of aliens. So far.
The big question isn’t whether the Universe is expanding at 67 or 73 km/s/Mpc. It’s why different methods yield such different answers.
A professor of educational psychology explains what and what not to do.
It isn’t just identical particles that can be entangled, but even those with fundamentally different properties interfere with each other.