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Not every language agrees on how many colors there are. With some having more terms and others fewer. But does that mean we see the world differently?
I’m not saying it wasn’t aliens… but… it wasn’t aliens. “Just the fact that you so desperately attempt to dismantle our theory proves that we are on the right track. Otherwise […]
Are we looking for life in all the wrong ways, like SETI with smoke signals? A little over 80 years ago, humanity first began broadcasting radio and television signals with enough […]
Hope has played a significant role in the lives of African Americans throughout history, from early abolitionists to Martin Luther King and President Obama.
Out of five vital questions, which one should we most desire the answer to? Despite all we’ve learned about physics, science, and the Universe before us, there are still some incredibly […]
With five moons orbiting it, Pluto is the richest rocky world known to date. How did it get that way? “We really expect the mission to be transformational. This is the […]
The biologists who revealed why zebras have black-and-white stripes now also have a theory on the black-and-white fur of giant pandas.
A US-based company is genetically creating proteins similar to bovine collagen to make leather from living cells without the need of animals.
Scientists film a closeup of DNA replication for the first time, leading to unexpected observations.
Archaeologists unearth 5,000-year-old “giants” in Shandong Province.
There are four main traits of temperament and two subsets of each. Which are you?
From an evolutionary perspective, religious practices and rituals are a form of play.
We may use superlatives all the time, but that’s no substitute for quantifying just how bad, big, or important something is. This article was written by Kimberly Arcand and Megan […]
ORBITER was in the path of totality for the solar eclipse, and on our way, we were joking about which of us might scream. Turns out, how could you not?
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A cataclysmic event in our past may have led to this situation.
Past or present, if there’s ever been any life at all, it changes everything. “They say once you grow crops somewhere, you have officially ‘colonized’ it. So technically, I colonized […]
As wonderful as the evidence that supports or invalidates a theory is, it can never truly kill the ones that don’t work out. When it comes to science, we like to […]
Our implicit biases are rooted in biology, but they can be easily manipulated. That’s both really good and really bad.
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There are many people who preach the supposed benefits of psychedelics, but none do it as well, nor as reliably, as these philosophers and scientists.
Other tech unveiled includes a (somewhat creepy) AI personal photographer, new VR gear, and a very affordable mini assistant.
Would there be only blackness past the event horizon? Or something more? Black holes are some of the most perplexing objects in the entire Universe. Objects so dense, where gravitation […]
Author Tony Dokoupil predicts a Liberal backlash against grass now that it’s becoming legal.
There is a new era of PTSD science just around the corner.
If you think we’ve seen all there is to see in the Universe, you’re about to have your imagination unlocked. “Hubble often takes images of distant gravitationally lensed galaxies to […]
We talked to a scientist who studies the afterlife and near-death experiences.
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American food banks are rejecting junk food for healthier fare, and so food corporations are hedging their bets elsewhere.
Designed by two MIT professors, this build-it-yourself kit teaches kids to “think with their hands” in an effort to bolster STEM skills early on.
People are snorting chocolate in Europe and now in America.
Did you experience totality? I did, for the first time. And it was, even as a well-prepared scientist, beyond anything I expected. “All that is nowAll that is goneAll that’s […]