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You can learn an awful lot about people, culture, and politics by studying R.

Cody Delistraty explores if laughter can help alleviate the physical symptoms of grief.

The surface of asteroid Bennu is more like a plastic ball pit than the Moon.

To understand others, you need to see past their fleeting emotions. You must perceive who they are as people.

The tonal Native American language differentiates words based on pitch and makes Spanish conjugation look like child’s play.

This collection of learning and development quotes serves as a reminder of the meaning and purpose behind this important work.

Despite the Sun’s high core temperatures, atomic nuclei repel each other too strongly to fuse together. Good thing for quantum physics!

Self-help often distills philosophical ideas for the modern ear. Sometimes, its better to go back to the source.

Success is about give and take — with a little more give.

The neutrino is the most ghostly, rarely-interacting particle in all the Standard Model. How well can we truly make “beams” out of them?

Most fundamental constants could be a little larger or smaller, and our Universe would still be similar. But not the mass of the electron.

Why does the DMT experience feel so familiar to some people — even those who are trying the psychedelic for the first time?

Memories aren’t mental recordings, but pliable information we can use to better manage the present and conjure future possibilities.

The US needs 28 million EV chargers by 2030. Here’s how it can get there.

Massive objects like black holes, stars, and rogue planets routinely pass near our Solar System. An ensuing comet storm could destroy us.

If the electromagnetic and weak forces unify to make the electroweak force, maybe, at higher energies, something even grander happens?

Psychologist Noel Brick shares the mental techniques we can use to improve our performance on and off the field.

Just a small gesture or a thoughtful comment can often alter a situation, or people’s perceptions of it, in ways that relieve tensions and make them feel appreciated and included.

In general relativity, matter and energy curve spacetime, which we experience as gravity. Why can’t there be an “antigravity” force?

The Standard Model may or may not be in trouble, but particle physics definitely needs saving. Here’s what the new LHC can do.

Four key components to guide the creation of emotional intelligence training for leaders.

Some constants, like the speed of light, exist with no underlying explanation. How many “fundamental constants” does our Universe require?

Dennis “Thresh” Fong talks to us about battling Elon Musk in Quake in the ‘90s, his undefeated record as a pro gamer, and using AI to detoxify gaming.

Lasers, mirrors, and computational advances can all work together to push ground-based astronomy past the limits of our atmosphere.

At a fundamental level, only a few particles and forces govern all of reality. How do their combinations create human consciousness?

Forgetting and misremembering are the building blocks of creativity and imagination.

Talking to yourself seems to yield real benefits, from boosts in cognitive performance to improved emotional regulation.

The majority of the matter in our Universe isn’t made of any of the particles in the Standard Model. Could the axion save the day?

The Standard Model of elementary particles has three nearly identical copies of particles: generations. And nobody knows why.

In the early stages of the hot Big Bang, matter and antimatter were (almost) balanced. After a brief while, matter won out. Here’s how.