Nick Lane believes he can explain the “black hole” at the heart of biology. And in the process predict traits that even alien life will have. Here are some amazing facts from biology.
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It can diminish the quality of your work in the long-term.
Artists, illustrators, and adventurers of the 1800s has fantastical imaginations for the distant future, i.e. our present day. How do their magical predictions stack up against our reality?
Super Bowl season illustrates a deep part of who we are, not just as sports fans.
It’s an app that creates more fear than love and has more potential to ruin lives than boost them.
Nothing fans the flames of nationalism like the sense of historical wrongs as yet “unrighted.”
One potential solution is to continually freeze and unfreeze an organ in such a way that ice will never form.
See it over the coming six weeks, before it disappears and heads out of the Solar System forever. “I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and […]
Now that it’s seen gravitational waves, could physics beyond Einstein be its next target? This post is written by Sabine Hossenfelder, a theoretical physicist specialized in quantum gravity & high energy […]
And out of their struggle, they made a product to help others.
Women’s entrepreneurship is a big key to solving global poverty. How can we make it easier for women to start their own businesses?
The best-selling Christmas toy embodies and encourages acceptance of surveillance as a necessary aspect of modern life.
An Applicant’s Guide To NASA Astronaut Selection This guest post was written by Brian Shiro: NOAA geophysicist, NASA researcher, and co-founder of Astronauts for Hire. “I wasn’t destined to be […]
Technology companies are under pressure to remove violent, terrorist content from their sites. Who should decide what gets removed?
Michio Kaku suggests that we lack to evolutionary pressure these days to keep evolving in any significant way.
Hint: it doesn’t have anything to do with our blue skies. “Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I’m on a time machine. I am back to that […]
A four-month–old little girl is alive today because of an inexpensive virtual reality device made by Google.
We’ve heard some pretty wild excuses to avoid clean energy. This one takes the cake.
Forensic anthropologist Richard Neave has given us the most accurate portrayal of Jesus to date. This still will not change the ways we misrepresent his identity.
The author of The Purpose Driven Life has a theory about why Paris happened: We haven’t accepted Jesus.
The Mexican census looks a little different this year.
How does a couple get past mutual boredom? Behavioral economist Dan Ariely suggests they reframe their perception of the dilemma.
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You can get as much done in six hours as you can in eight hours, but with much less wasted time.
A complete refusal to accept basic facts has made a religion of our gun obsession.
And here’s the reason why, despite all you may have heard. “Thou shalt not embarrass thyself and thy colleagues by claiming false planets.” –Bill Cochran Late last year, one of the […]
A drug is going into human testing that could prevent rapid aging.
Making Internet available where there once was none.
When we fear, we band together, and more readily treat people in other tribes as the enemy.
In times of emergency, many of us reach for our phones. They are vital to the safety and security of our families, friends, and colleagues.
Nigeria is building houses out of a most unusual building block.