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Once the emergency is over, maybe it’s time we drew a different map of Louisiana – however shocking it may be.
Here’s why your wife won’t let you forget that stupid thing you did 6 months ago.
A list debunking commonly believed falsehoods, misconceptions and just bad ideas.
Could the secret to understanding gravity be held in reducing, not increasing, the number of dimensions? This article is written by Sabine Hossenfelder. Sabine is a theoretical physicist specialized in […]
Pascal’s Wager has been betted on for three-and-a-half centuries. Was he asking the right question?
There are some who feel that cemeteries should be treated as sacred places and should be exempt from the Pokemon experience. There are others who feel that they want to catch a Pokemon right now.
The four fundamental forces have ruled our Universe for over 50 years, now. Are we on the brink of discovering a new one? “The new claim now is [a] boson with […]
Bill Nye explains the ways in which creationism hurts kids by making scientific inquiry impossible.
Nikola Tesla, Franz Kafka, and Winston Churchill all practiced polyphasic sleep.
A new Italian study shows that women who eat pasta are skinnier. But there’s more to the research than that.
If the Universe is infinite and full of stars and galaxies, why can’t we see something everywhere we look? “When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead […]
In 1994, Miguel Alcubierre showed how warp drive could be made real within General Relativity. What does that imply? “Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new […]
The answer is larger than you might think, and applies in some shocking ways! “The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way […]
If perfected, Gene therapy promises to heal in one shot, without complications or side effects.
The strong, weak, electromagnetic and gravitational forces probably aren’t all there is. Did we just find evidence for a fifth? “A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics […]
Before the Big Bang… after the Big Freeze… will everything look the same? “What is wild cannot be bought or sold, borrowed or copied. It is. Unmistakeable, unforgettable, unshamable, elemental as […]
Images credit: New York Times, 10 November 1919 (L); Illustrated London News, 22 November 1919 (R). If the cloud situation had played out differently, the United States might have confirmed […]
Rabble-rousing politicians may be uniquely benefitting from the Information Age.
Best Friends Animal Sanctuary is spearheading a national no-kill shelter movement for cats and dogs.
Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Philosopher of mind Peter Godfrey-Smith on octopus consciousness, free will, and an extinct sea-worm he’d like to resurrect.
Mary Roach, author of Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans in War, talks about ear cuffs, a new military-grade technology that will help soldiers preserve their hearing and minimize deafness and hearing disability among veterans.
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Scientists explain why explosive, disruptive magnetic reconnections occur so mystifyingly often.
Rather than life arising on Earth, did it already exist in space prior to our planet’s formation? “When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it […]
The FAA has issued a mysterious advisory telling pilots not to trust their GPS for several days this June.
The LUX experiment just set the tightest bounds ever on dark matter, and may lead us down a different path entirely. “For me the best answer is not in words […]
If you gazed up at the Perseids, you’ll want to appreciate the fact that we’re still here. “Honestly, if you’re given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don’t say ‘what […]
For the central 8,000 light years, there are practically no tracers of new stars. What gives? “This suggests a lack of Cepheids in the inner 2.5 kpc region of the Galactic […]
It’s an old idea made new again, but it just might fall apart. “[The black hole] teaches us that space can be crumpled like a piece of paper into an infinitesimal […]
Don’t believe every science study you read, because sometimes not even their authors believe them. Here are the issues corrupting good, honest science – and how to fix them.