Progress got derailed somewhere between indoor plumbing and the flying car. Why?
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The Multiverse fuels some of the 21st century’s best fiction stories. But its supporting pillars are on extremely stable scientific footing.
These were the stories you clicked on the most.
Take a closer look before judging a book by its title.
Today’s popular weight-loss drugs could soon be joined by brain stimulation and gene therapies.
And a combination of all three might take us farther than ever. If you want to see the farthest objects in the Universe, you have to know not only where to […]
It’s spooky, and it’s happening all around us. And inside us.
Nero’s reputation as one of the most malevolent emperors in Roman history might be partly slander.
Hubble, our greatest space-based observatory today, is just the beginning. The Hubble Space Telescope has been astronomy’s most revolutionary observatory in history. The stars and galaxies we see today didn’t […]
Research suggests that emotional intelligence is more vital for success than IQ.
The last image puts it all in perspective. Compared to what we find in our Solar System, galaxies are truly enormous. The Sun may be 109 times the diameter of […]
Chess could perhaps be the ultimate window through which we might see how our mental powers shift during our lives.
Various environmental phenomena can play tricks on our brain.
If you gave me $400 and I gave you $3.15, would you consider yourself wealthier? That’s a financial analogy for the supposed fusion power “breakthrough.”
Research shows that octopuses are sentient, emotional creatures.
In 1974, Hawking showed that black holes aren’t stable, but emit radiation and decay. Nearly 50 years later, it isn’t just for black holes.
The multi-leveled constructions of metaphysics are the collective workings of a fantastical virtuality. Did you get that?
Inside the metaverse, your emotions and physical responses will be monitored, and AI will use that data to influence you in real time. Is that essentially mind control?
Turning off a gene called “Myc” has a surprising effect in male fruit flies: They start courting other males.
Jeremy Johnson — co-founder of the talent network Andela — reflects on leadership in the age of remote work and AI.
Einstein called his idea “abominable,” but the world of physics came around to embracing the views of Georges Lemaître.
Unless you have a critical mass of heavy elements when your star first forms, planets, including rocky ones, are practically impossible.
Think you should speak about 40% of the time in conversation? How about 70%?
A woman’s name would undermine the credibility of the mission. Names of former Nazis, however, were no problem.
The Universe is precisely dated at 13.8 billion years old, but astronomers claim the Methuselah star is 14.5 billion years old. What gives?
50 years ago, Herman Chernoff proposed using human faces to represent multidimensional datasets. It was a good idea in theory — but a disaster in practice.
Science and philosophy seem to be separate fields, but philosophical advancements have made the world more accepting of debate and unorthodox ideas.
Evolutionary pressures drove the formation of tribes who encoded their values in myths and symbols. Was this cooperation cursed?
Science continues to amplify our view of reality.