Imagine reading by plant light, and glow-in-the-dark trees instead of street lamps. That’s on the horizon thanks to these engineers.
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This study is radically changing how we view the process of evolution.
The Oscars has produced a number of controversial speeches in the past. This year will likely not divert from that path.
We are discovering that the subtleties of our psychological lives are being managed by specific modules in our brains.
Philosophers like to present their works as if everything before it was wrong. Sometimes, they even say they have ended the need for more philosophy. So, what happens when somebody realizes they were mistaken?
Today millions are celebrating the resurrection of Christ, yet there were many gods before him with similar stories.
We used to think of genes themselves as set in stone. But the story is far more complex.
Illumination from nanobionic plants might one day replace some electrical lighting.
Even with nothing new falling into it, our radius is increasing with every second that goes by. It’s no big secret that galaxies grow over time. The force of gravity is […]
If your favorite theory made the list, you might want to consider a new favorite to bet on. “Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great […]
As human beings we all must do some work for basic survival—but how much? Is there a “minimum daily requirement” of work?
The scientists have traced the signals to just 180 million years after the Big Bang, making the detection the earliest evidence of hydrogen yet observed.
Children’s drawings of houses rendered as they’d look in real life.
Humanity has mapped the Milky Way better than ever with ESA’s Gaia. But 1.7 billion stars later, there are still no Dyson spheres. Perhaps the greatest ‘holy grail’ in all of […]
If nature makes equal amounts of matter and antimatter, how are we here? When you look out at the vastness of the Universe, at the planets, stars, galaxies, and all there […]
And if their conclusions will be different from ours, how can we be certain we’ve got it right? One of the greatest dangers in all of science is jumping to false […]
God has a twitter account, and it is full of hilarity as well as deep insights.
Many great minds have plenty of bad things to say about democracy, but what about the people who think it is great?
It’s more accurate than an atomic clock, and would take thousands of years to lose a second.
When we place the known objects in the Solar System in order, four inner, rocky worlds and four, outer, giant worlds stand out. Traditionally, these were defined as planets. Will […]
Finding New Year’s resolutions isn’t always easy. To help you out, we’ve gotten ideas from some of the greatest thinkers of all time.
Cultural diversity is not only an enormous issue for organizations of all sizes—it’s an inevitable fact of life in our increasingly globalized economy. Companies can benefit greatly from the variety […]
When we are asked to check a sex-identity box on a bureaucratic form, what definition of sex is being invoked and to what end?
What is the what about the squat? And have we reached some sort of squatting vogue moment?
It’s the first, most naive question you might think to ask. The solution is a lot more complicated than you imagine. According to a large amount of evidence, the overwhelming majority […]
Sure, we found the Higgs Boson at the LHC earlier this decade. But what else has, and more importantly, hasn’t turned up? It’s now just over five years since the two […]
How much free will do you actually have? This week’s Comment of the Week is fantastic and raises an interesting debate. What do you think?
Once the realm of psychotic disorders, we now know that hallucinations are widespread.
Before Hawking, black holes were just static points in the background of space. His greatest scientific legacy taught us just how dynamic they are. In 1915, Albert Einstein published his General […]
Even our scientific heroes can’t be right about everything. Let’s learn the lessons that they never did. In the 1960s, a young theoretical physicist named Stephen Hawking rose to prominence as […]