Not everything that claims to be “scientific” actually is. There are five features of scientifically rigorous studies.
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In the night sky for March of 2022, only stars and the Moon, not planets, will greet you. The real show, however, arrives just before dawn.
Short-termism is both rooted in our most primal instincts and encouraged by runaway technological development. How can we fight it?
In pre-War Cambridge, students had to ace an interview with Ludwig Wittgenstein to attend his lectures — Alan Turing passed that test, and went on to create one of his own.
His grandfather, a member of Oppenheimer’s atomic bomb team, foresaw the potential of nuclear energy to power cities — not destroy them.
Yoga is more than just standing on your head. It’s about uniting with the divine.
From landscaped gardens to road systems, the Persians were among the first to create many things we still enjoy today.
More than 90% of human faces are home to mites that live in our skin pores. These friendly guests might be merging with us.
If we were born trillions of years in the future, could we even figure out our cosmic history?
Communication among cetaceans, like whales and dolphins, looks especially promising.
Realizing that matter and energy are quantized is important, but quantum particles aren’t the full story; quantum fields are needed, too.
The sober reality behind the effectiveness of two new drugs touted as Alzheimer’s breakthroughs: lecanemab and donanemab.
One of the winners. Dr. K. Barry Sharpless, is now the fifth person in history to win two Nobels.
Red dwarf stars were supposed to be inhospitable. But TOI-700, now with at least two potentially habitable worlds, is quite the exception.
Next year is the perfect time to have better conversations!
A new generation of leaders is forging a path for 21st-century capitalism that’s both profitable and socially responsible.
Quantum physics isn’t quite magic, but it requires an entirely novel set of rules to make sense of the quantum universe.
Einstein hated “spooky action at a distance,” but much to his chagrin, quantum mechanics remains as spooky as ever.
Most popular songs are about love and heartache. But some great songs — albeit underrated and perhaps a bit weird — are about the cities we love.
Even the dictionary doesn’t get the definition right.
The road to happiness is indirect and full of frustration.
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Pure cinema is about removing redundancy so that even the smallest detail serves a purpose in relation to the bigger picture.
Travel half the distance to your destination, and there’s always another half to go. Despite Zeno’s Paradox, you always arrive right on time.
Extreme home environments — either very supportive or harshly negligent — tend to produce more sensitive kids.
If it wasn’t a singularity, how small could it have been? Today, when you look out in any direction as far as the laws of physics allow us to see, the […]
Oxygen isn’t strictly necessary for combustion, but it is ideal. Any advanced (alien) civilization probably uses oxygen to burn things.
Defy conventional startup wisdom by charting a steady and impactful path to success.
Some ozone experts seriously doubt the findings.
The Standard Model of elementary particles has three nearly identical copies of particles: generations. And nobody knows why.