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After 13.8 billion years, there’s still a whole lot that’s changing as time goes on. With each new year that comes upon us, there are a slew of new events awaiting […]
There’s a reason they call work “work.”
Astronomers find these five chapters to be a handy way of conceiving the universe’s incredibly long lifespan.
In “Douglas,” the Australian comedian opens up about her autism diagnosis.
Visiting even one friend can undo all the good work that social distancing has accomplished. Over the past few months, people all over the world have come to realize just […]
On the morning of March 31, 2020, these three worlds will be at their mutual closest in 20 years. For the past few weeks, Mars, Saturn, and Jupiter have all shone […]
The world’s most isolated inhabited island also has some of the world’s strangest toponyms.
Your opinions about a large number of complex scientific issues are probably wrong. That’s why we have science. In 2016, an Italian virologist named Roberto Burioni was invited to appear on […]
An overabundance of this particular protein make mice anxious and is found in human OCD patients.
Can’t memorize all those elements? If you’re more into geography, perhaps this will help.
The biggest error from ‘A Brief History of Time’ continues to misinform generations of aspiring physicists. The greatest idea of Stephen Hawking’s scientific career truly revolutionized how we think about […]
We just found a system that we can’t explain. Here’s what’s going on. One of the most fascinating facts about the Universe is that there’s so much of it out there. […]
Study finds that a colony’s exposure to pesticides impairs offspring.
It’s both accurate and slightly misleading to call the keto diet a “fad diet”. On the one hand, the keto diet has in recent years become a fad, taking over a […]
Researchers call this “intergenerational reciprocity.”
Unique research out of Switzerland says be kind, just not too kind.
A study by UK archaeologists finds that longbows caused horrific injuries similar to modern gunshot wounds.
An experimental study involving 90 heavy drinkers found promising results.
Unbelievably enough, it all comes back to Pythagoras. One of the first theorems anyone learns in mathematics is the Pythagorean Theorem: if you have a right triangle, then the square […]
To find the optimal route between many different locations, we need the power of quantum computers.
A study of 323 uprisings against repressive regimes yields stunning insights.
It really is the ‘glue’ that holds the Universe together, enabling structures like our own galaxy to form in the first place. One of the most puzzling and counterintuitive facts about […]
Solid, liquid, and gas are the three everyone learns. Plasma is the fourth. But there are two more, and they’re fascinating. How many states of matter are there? When you […]
Central banks face a Herculean task to keep economies right-side up.
Is there anything we can do to help us give up this habit?
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Researchers at UT Southwestern noted a 47 percent increase in blood flow to regions associated with memory.
Even physicists sometimes fall for these. For centuries, the laws of physics seemed completely deterministic. If you knew where every particle was, how fast it was moving, and what the forces […]
Using a new process, a mini-brain develops retinal cells.