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It is all too easy for humans to fall into the cognitive trap of thinking that an entity that can use language fluently is sentient or intelligent.
Amyloid plaque can build up in body organs other than the brain. The resulting diseases — AL amyloidosis, ATTR amyloidosis and more — cause much suffering.
From Atlantis to Thule, these mythical locales have captivated people’s imaginations for centuries.
Blended learning reflects how people learn and develop naturally every day. Here’s how to put it into practice.
You may only have a few minutes to prepare.
A toxicological study shows that the victims of human sacrifice consumed coca leaves and ayahuasca before they were killed, but not for reasons we originally thought.
The great hope is that beyond the indirect, astrophysical evidence we have today, we’ll someday detect it directly. But what if we can’t?
In “Off the Edge”, journalist Kelly Weill dives down the strange rabbit hole of the flat-Earther community.
Is there such a thing as a heroic personality type?
Brown noise, the better-known white noise, and even pink noise are all sonic hues.
The bird demonstrates cutting-edge technology for devising self-folding nanoscale robots.
We’re used to scientists telling us about the math and physics behind astronomical events. But what does studying space make us feel?
An ancient continent called Balkanatolia rose and fell in the area in and around what is now the eastern Mediterranean.
The road to happiness is indirect and full of frustration.
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EV charging stations are the most widespread alternative to gas and diesel pumps. Each alternative has its own hotspots and “deserts.”
Some intellectuals use charisma and deception to obscure the holes in their arguments. Here is how to see through their smokescreen.
Bend it. Stretch it. Use it to conduct electricity.
Carnivorous plants fascinate as much now as when their gruesome diet was first discovered.
People who visit Florence seem strangely susceptible to Stendhal syndrome, which is blamed on an overwhelming sense of awe.
Large language models are an impressive advance in AI, but we are far away from achieving human-level capabilities.
Between 30% and 50% of the US population says they believe in ghosts.
Are you unhappy with how various events in your life turned out? Perhaps, in a parallel Universe, things worked out very differently.
You don’t have to “feel the burn” to see improvements to your health and well-being.
Researchers believe they have found a single point mutation in an infection-sensing gene that causes the autoimmune disorder.
Rock art in northern Australia depicts marsupial lions, giant kangaroos, and other megafauna that populated the Land Down Under long ago.
Our temporal experience of the world is not divided into a series of neat segments, yet that’s how we talk about time.
It’s on a 100,000-year timescale, though, so the next few centuries might not be so comfortable.
Daylight saving time was first implemented during the first world war to take advantage of longer daylight hours and save energy. While this made a difference when we heavily relied on coal […]
How will we actually feel when the things we do with care are suddenly dealt with in seconds by AI? Here’s a preliminary plan.