That dizziness you reportedly feel after watching a 3D film may be all in your head.
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Should you check yourself before you bedeck yourself?
A new book offers insights into the makers of earworms you can’t escape.
Researchers tested police on major misconceptions about the psychology of policing
A new French agreement hopes to curb the global waste food by encouraging supermarkets to act generously.
Scalia was sitting right next to Clarence Thomas, the sole African-American justice, when he made these startling comments.
Until the Internet was allowed on commercial flights, the solution to assuage my fear of flying was to find the nearest airport pub and throw a few back before boarding the plane. That’s all changed.
Free markets aren’t like gravity. They’re ruled by neither laws of nature nor commandments carved in stone. Delegating our ethics to markets risks costly error. All things are not equally auctionable.
Both are beautiful gifts, but only one is a beautiful learning experience. “The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie […]
NASA’s Dawn Mission has finally photographed the full world at full resolution. Come see it! “Bringing an asteroid back to Earth? What’s that have to do with space exploration? If […]
If all the worlds formed together, they have the ingredients for life, too. Maybe it isn’t just Earth who got lucky. “If I had to describe myself to an alien […]
If You Work in a Creative Industry, You Should Steal Other People’s Ideas Just as Shakespeare lifted plots from his predecessors, young performers today ought to focus on emulating those […]
Dark matter may be cold and collisionless, but the strange behavior of planets just might lead to its detection. “Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if […]
Rupert Murdoch now owns 73 percent of National Geographic. What does this mean for the organization’s future?
Robert Dear’s murders at a Planned Parenthood are only the latest in a long string of terrorist attacks by Americans.
A big part of our current mess has to do with how little about religion we actually know.
It’s rare to find a galaxy where the arms wrap around even a full 360 degrees. But after billions of years, why is that? “The farther we peer into space, the […]
The most powerful accelerator in the world found the Higgs, but might not find anything else. What should come next? “It is no good to try to stop knowledge from […]
We know the Standard Model isn’t all there is. So why haven’t we found a single particle outside of it? “I often feel a discomfort, a kind of embarrassment, when I […]
Neither astronomers nor native Hawaiians are to blame, but it’s up to everyone to get it right moving forward. “The cause of Hawaiian independence is larger and dearer than the life […]
Ever want to get rid of the link to that pic of you doing a keg stand? Google can help. And it’s pretty creepy.
Traveling to the future is possible, but the “back” part runs into trouble. Mr. Strickland: “I noticed your band is on the roster for the dance auditions after school today. […]
These findings are extremely helpful.
The ability to laugh during dark times gives us strength, community, and hope.
The tale of a young man driven to his death for fighting for what is right, and the young woman picking up where he left off.
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 […]
The laws of physics appear to be symmetric between matter and antimatter. But the Universe tells a different story. “If you see an antimatter version of yourself running towards you, […]
Those who want to keep Syrian refugees out of the country are succumbing to a classic error of logical reasoning.
Vince Lombardi famously once said, “Winners never quit. Quitters never win.” But a new study finds otherwise.