For some reason, the charges on the electron and proton are equal and opposite, and their numbers are equal, too. But why?
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It may be easiest when you’re young, but the proven benefits of learning a new language at any age cannot be ignored.
Truth might be hard to find, but we can take steps to eliminate common cognitive biases.
The insurmountable contrasts between their visions help explain Russia’s stunted development and hint at its destructive future.
Americans don’t like to ride the bus. There are ways to fix that.
The most massive galaxies lost their star-forming material very early on and never got it back.
The Source Family, a radical 1970s utopian commune, still impacts what we eat today.
How imagining the worst case scenario can help calm anxiety.
Most potentially hazardous asteroids remain unidentified. NEO surveyor could change that, but only if it’s funded, and soon.
On other planets, blue skies and red sunsets aren’t the norm.
Nutrisystem is a smarter weight-loss program that users enjoy.
The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis argues that a comet strike caused major changes to climate and human cultures on Earth about 13,000 years ago.
His grandfather, a member of Oppenheimer’s atomic bomb team, foresaw the potential of nuclear energy to power cities — not destroy them.
In reality, it has no color at all. Here’s why. Every time you see an illustration of the COVID-19 coronavirus, it’s shown with a red color to it. Sometimes it’s red […]
A global survey shows the majority of countries favor Android over iPhone.
The past ~4 billion years have been an incredibly successful, unbroken run for life on Earth. The future won’t be nearly so bright.
Music is often labelled a “universal language,” and according to the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, there is a good reason for that.
While other factors exist, sexual prowess appears to have helped determine the role of Protoceratops frills.
‘Reductio ad absurdum’ won’t help you in an absurd Universe. Throughout history, there have been two main ways humanity has attempted to gain knowledge about the world: top-down, where we […]
A new study explores how using positive labels to describe a majority group may negative impact perceptions of minority groups.
The fruits of long-term thinking will reveal themselves in five or ten or 30 years, when you’ve created the future you’ve always wanted.
The Twin Jet nebula, shown here, is a stunning example of a bipolar preplanetary nebula. At the center, a dying star is in the final stages of life where it […]
In 2011, a bizarre, green object was discovered. At long last, we finally understand why. One of astronomy’s biggest surprises came in 2007, when a mysterious green object was found. […]
For the ancients, hospitality was an inviolable law enforced by gods and priests and anyone else with the power to make you pay dearly for mistreating a stranger.
This is your brain on work.
A new study shows our planet is much closer to the supermassive black hole at the galaxy’s center than previously estimated.
Deep underwater, temperatures are close to freezing and the pressure is 1,000 times higher than at sea level.
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And what can it teach us about our Solar System’s earliest days? In many ways, astronomy is unique among the sciences. In every other field, you have the ability to design […]
Some of them may have formed just 200 million years after the Big Bang. When we look out at the Universe, we’re not seeing objects as they are today, but rather […]