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Laughing gas may be far more effective for some than antidepressants.
It happened 13.8 billion years ago, so why hasn’t the radiation all passed over us by now? For the past 13.8 billion years, our Universe has been expanding, cooling, and gravitating. […]
English is a dynamic language, and this summer’s new additions to dictionary.com tell us a lot about how we’re living.
For every good idea in evolution, there is an unintended consequence. Disease is often one of them.
One single plot of data embodies the most profound thing we know about the stars.
Terrified of blushing? You might have erythrophobia.
The Universe is dark, but the distorted light reveals its presence. When we look at the objects in the Universe, the mass just doesn’t add up. A galaxy that was […]
The light we observe isn’t the same as the light that gets emitted. Here’s what causes it. The light you see, when you look out at the stars and galaxies that […]
Maybe eyes really are windows into the soul — or at least into the brain, as a new study finds.
Many of the furniture giant’s products are named after Swedish locations. Not everyone is happy about that.
The night sky is already noticeably different, and bigger changes are ahead. For all of human history until the launch of Sputnik, the only objects in the night sky were naturally […]
A new control system, demonstrated using MIT’s robotic mini cheetah, enables four-legged robots to jump across uneven terrain in real-time.
A unique star system where exoplanets orbit their star backwards located by researchers.
Socrates lived during a time when people did not strive to separate fact from fiction. So how much of what we know about Socrates is true?
There’s a boundary to how far back we can observe everything that exists. Despite everything we’ve learned about our Universe, there are many existential questions that remain unanswered. We don’t know […]
The prize went to three researchers who revolutionized the social sciences by taking advantage of natural experiments.
A Harvard professor’s study discovers the worst year to be alive.
The scientists, not the fossil fuel industry, were right all along. Back in 1990, the world’s top climate scientists convened to put together a report on the state of Earth’s climate. […]
It’s that the Universe can be understood at all. Don’t deafen yourself to its lessons. In a nutshell, 2020 has been a unique year in human history. For the first time […]
When people pick the greatest scientist of all-time, Newton and Einstein always come up. Perhaps they should name Johannes Kepler, instead.
As the Universe ages, will it eventually fade away entirely? The earliest signal we’ve ever directly detected from the Universe comes to us from shortly after the Big Bang: when […]
Without a little help from Einstein, we couldn’t have made this discovery. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, currently celebrating its 30th anniversary, still churns out novel discoveries. The Hubble eXtreme Deep […]
If everything eventually dies and decays, is there a way to prolong the inevitable? Our Universe, as it exists today, puts us in an incredibly privileged position. Had we come […]
The first personality tests revolved around assessing people’s reactions to ambiguous and often unsettling images. Today, the gold standard is a barrage of questions.
It could have had any curvature at all. So why is it flat? What is the shape of the Universe? If you had come along before the 1800s, it likely never […]
Some U.S. intelligence operatives have suggested foreign adversaries may be using “directed-energy” weapons against Americans.
Researchers hypothesize that these exoplanets could support the development of alien life.
America’s war in Southeast Asia is fading fast from memory. These maps offer a horrific reminder.