“Hubble’s Law” is only an approximation, and breaks down when we need it most. From anywhere in the Universe, you can choose to look out at any other galaxy that’s present. […]
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Carnivores, herbivores, omnivores — and now virivores.
What better explains the prevalence of heavy metal in Scandinavian countries: culture or economy?
The Shirky Principle states that “institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.”
Scientists put the most mysterious force in the Universe to the ultimate test. When it comes to the Universe, it’s easy to make the incorrect assumption that what we see is […]
Signals from the environment, such as those detected by your sense organs, have no inherent psychological meaning. Your brain creates the meaning.
Signals from across the universe point toward a fascinating possibility.
The first “running machine” — later known as the bicycle — symbolizes a key design idea.
“In order to seek truth,” Rene Descartes once wrote, “it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, all things.”
Was the terror of Biscayne Bay a man who escaped slavery, an African chieftain, or a marketing ploy that went viral?
Understanding these links could bring us closer to a cure.
AI was the most divisive topic in a recent predictions tournament.
A few years ago, the first dark matter-free galaxies were announced, and then immediately disputed. Now, there are too many to ignore.
Millions of people have had a near-death experience, and it often leads them to believe in an afterlife. Does this count as good proof?
Three cutting-edge techniques – the gene-editing tool CRISPR, fluorescent proteins and optogenetics – were all inspired by nature.
If you want to understand the Universe, cosmologically, you just can’t do it without the Friedmann equation. With it, the cosmos is yours.
He couldn’t identify the numbers 2 through 9. But strangely, he could still see ones and zeros.
The shift from steam to electricity was inevitable — but some foresaw it earlier than others.
Even the most brilliant mind in history couldn’t have achieved all he did without significant help from the minds of others.
Where did the “seed” magnetic field come from in the first place?
If our nearest star has an Earth-like planet, here’s how we’ll see it. As seen from up close, the signs of not only life, but our intelligent, technologically advanced human civilization […]
82% of professionals say they’d take a lower-paying job to work for an organization with more ethical business practices. This is just one of the reasons to offer ethics training for employees.
Narnia and early Middle-earth were pancake-esque — but their creators took differing views on de-globalization.
Cosmology is unlike other sciences. When our view of the Universe changes, so does our understanding of philosophy and science itself.
A new study says the reason cave paintings are in such remote caverns was the artists’ search for transcendence.
The stars stood no chance against the more-massive black holes.
Quantum physics is starting to show up in unexpected places. Indeed, it is at work in animals, plants, and our own bodies.
Epigenetic entropy shows that you can’t fully understand cancer without mathematics.
Smashing things together at unprecedented energies sounds dangerous. But it’s nothing the Universe hasn’t already seen, and survived.
Every December, the Geminid meteor shower reaches its peak. Its 2021 show will be spectacular, but only if you do it right.