But are any of these potentially Earth-like worlds actually inhabited? Here are the prospects. “It isn’t only the beauty of the night sky that thrills me. It’s the sense I […]
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A superbug that resisted all available bacteria kills a woman in Reno, Nevada.
A movement grows to re-examine Columbus’s legacy and abolish his holiday.
Farewell Moon, we barely knew you. Bill Nye knows the Moon is moving away from Earth 1.48 inches per year. Will it keep drifting further away, and what happens to Earth when it does?
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Researchers create tiny implants that promise new medical treatments via breakthrough brain-machine interaction.
A spoonful of sugar has always made the medicine go down – but shouldn’t we be asking whether we need this type of medication in the first place?
For those who still don’t believe in global warming, the science has had it right for half a century now. “Greenhouse gases are the second most important factor for climate, after […]
Reviving the “Lesbian Rule” (which Aristotle wrote about, and was proverbial in Shakespeare’s day) can help us handle a new kind of weaponized-math threat (that Cathy O’Neil calls “Weapons of Math Destruction”).
The man who lives a functional life with most of his brain filled with water challenges what we know about the brain.
Silicon Valley engineers and financiers make up the lion’s share of the movement.
A neuroscientific approach to maintaining emotional well-being.
So far, 549 separate paraphilias have been officially identified.
Many teens are showing up to school sleep-deprived from late night social media use, and it may be hurting their academic performance. Researchers find that “over a third of young people appear to be waking up during the night to send or check messages via social media.”
They have the same feelings as normal people. It’s how they make decisions that’s different.
According to Tali Sharot, our innate optimism bias is necessary, but needs to be taken in doses.
No, you are most definitely not entitled to your own facts. In fact, you’re required to disclose what evidence would change your mind! “You must remember, my dear lady, the most […]
There are many strange instances of marketing and holiday traditions coming together. Let’s be more alert in 2017.
She went from a child who could only squirm to one who could walk and talk again.
If you think that spin-1/2 and spin-1 aren’t that different, the actual science may shock you. “The layman always means, when he says “reality” that he is speaking of something self-evidently […]
Netflix’s new teen suicide drama has parents and many mental-health experts terrified.
One-fifth to one-sixth of British Victorian fortunes were derived from slavery, historians say.
In a 2012 study, participants used a Ouija board to get in touch with their “second intelligence.”
Only two things will change the minds of science skeptics: appeals to their ego, or their wallets.
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Death, politics and war – but also Dirty Grandpas, supermoons and all-day breakfasts
Evidence suggests that gains in symptom reduction are permanent.
Just like alcohol, nicotine and other narcotics, sugar tickles our dopamine receptors in just the right way, inspiring our brain’s reward system. How will this end for us?
Now that the stretch between Thanksgiving and the New Year is upon us the litany of fitness excuses rolls out. Gyms will be sparse, with crowds flocking on certain days […]
Physician Danielle Ofri argues that honest conversation is the most powerful mechanism for healing.
Ritualized killings once took place in many societies and in most regions around the globe.
Why it’s not “the next Hubble,” but “the first James Webb.” “…because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills; because that challenge is […]