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America’s greatest international impact since World War 2 has been through its diplomacy, not its wars.

Almost 200 cognitive biases rule our everyday thinking. A new codex boils them down to 4.

A well-known cosmologist comes out with very stark warnings about particle accelerators.

The result validate Einstein on a whole new scale, and pose serious problems for alternative, modified theories of gravity. In 1915, Albert Einstein put forth a new theory of gravity: General […]

Any hypothesis, no matter how alluring, must be confronted with the full suite of data. Our Solar System may be the closest part of the Universe to us as we look […]

In order to build a second Earth, we need to look at how the first one was made.

If everything was hot, dense, and super close-together at the Big Bang, what kept us from collapsing into a singularity? The Big Bang is one of the most counterintuitive ideas […]

If you go all the way back to where neutral atoms first formed, you can see the cosmic microwave background. Buried in the details is the Universe’s first evidence for […]

Once again, our circadian rhythm points the way.

For 55 hours, not a speck of coal was used to toast crumpets in England. How did the U.K. give up the dirtiest fossil fuel?

It’s one of the most common tropes in science fiction. But which movies actually get the science right? The way we travel through time, at a speed of one second per […]

A new study shows that some men’s reaction to sex is not what you’d expect, resulting in a condition previously observed in women.

There’s no such thing as a theory that’s too beautiful to be wrong, if it doesn’t agree with experiment. The history of physics is filled with great ideas that you’ve […]

Ketosis is known to work wonders in terms of short-term weight loss. But what about the diet’s effects over the long term?

Most of us will still be alive then. Maybe.

Think the future isn’t already here with us? Think again!

There’s something very special inside a proton and neutron that holds the key. There are few things in the Universe that are as easy to form, in theory, as black holes […]

On hallucinating a teensy Virgin Mary in a water fountain, our weird relationship to fame, her stint as an elf-hunting camp counselor, and more in what feels like a 4 am college conversation with the inimitable Parker Posey.

A team of international scientists has pinpointed the cosmic source of a ghostly subatomic particle called a neutrino, marking the beginning of a new era in astronomy.

Money makes the world go ’round. Unfortunately, it can make both children and adults into materialists.

Back with another one of those block(chain)-rockin’ reads.

Space may be enormous, but collisions are inevitable. Here’s what happens when they occur. The Universe as we know it has been around for nearly 14 billion years: plenty of time […]

We’re taught that the most massive stars in the Universe all die in supernovae. We were taught wrong. Create a star that’s massive enough, and it won’t go out with a […]

Hubble holds the record, finding a galaxy when the Universe was just 3% it’s age. In just a few years, James Webb will shatter it. One of the great scientific lessons […]

The past 300,000 years occurs in the blink of a cosmic eye, but it’s meant everything to humanity. The history of humanity was anything but inevitable. Although the Universe created […]

Want to learn about innovation? Study hip hop. From the early dance halls to the Wu-Tang Clan, cognitive friction has made hip hop better and better.

If it were, we wouldn’t be here. But there’s a scientific answer that’s been spectacularly confirmed. When we examine our Universe, looking out at the planets, stars, galaxies, and vast […]

The Mars landing is a reminder that we never know what—or whom—we might discover out there.

In the far future, the last star burns out, stellar corpses get violently ejected, and galaxies accelerate away. And then the fun begins. For centuries, the biggest questions about our Universe […]

Is microdosing magic truffles a way to unlock your creative potential? That’s long been anecdotal, but the evidence is coming.