The fictitious 31st-century world portrayed by the series is actually quite a bit like our own in the 21st century.
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You’ve probably noticed that most retailers use prices ending in 99. That’s intentional.
In some Asian countries, what’s in your blood may influence your social status.
The whole isn’t greater than the sum of its parts; that’s a flaw in our thinking. Non-reductionism requires magic, not merely science.
We do not need to pause AI research. But we do need a pause on the public release of these tools until we can determine how to deal with them.
What we call “basic research” is actually the most cutting-edge. It underpins knowledge, and without it, technology does not come into being.
As we look to larger cosmic scales, we get a broader view of the expansive cosmic forest, eventually revealing the grandest views of all.
There are different types of atheism and atheists. In general, they can be classified as the non-religious, the non-believers, and agnostics.
College students once stood out from the pack on IQ tests. Today, they’re about average.
Invisible cloaks. Ghost imaging. Scientists are manipulating light in ways that were once only science fiction.
An army of replicators belonging to national laboratories, research universities, and amateur garages is rushing to replicate ambient superconductivity in LK-99.
Jokes so cheesy even French philosophers will love them.
Whether in Russia or China, the secret police are defined by their unquestioning loyalty — as well as by their poor career prospects.
Becoming a renter in today’s economy may be a smart decision for some people.
A new study upends a long-standing theory on how the brain plans motor actions in uncertain environments.
Research shows that psilocybin leads people away from materialism and toward transcendentalism. Apparently, mushrooms teach metaphysics.
From hellishly hot planets to water worlds, some distant planets are like nothing in our Solar System.
As early as we’ve been able to identify them, the youngest galaxies seem to have large supermassive black holes. Here’s how they were made.
And why you, a non-expert, should absolutely not consider “explaining what you know” to an actual expert in the field.
Since its observation discovery in the 1990s, dark energy has been one of science’s biggest mysteries. Could black holes be the cause?
Entrenched business wisdom says that community-led economic systems are pure fantasy. Douglas Rushkoff disagrees.
From the present day all the way to less than 400 million years after the Big Bang, we’re seeing how the Universe grew up like never before.
Maybe eyes really are windows into the soul — or at least into the brain, as a new study finds.
The pathogen typically kills more than 90% of people it infects.
From the earliest stages of the hot Big Bang (and even before) to our dark energy-dominated present, how and when did the Universe grow up?
After Albert Einstein’s death in 1955, a pathologist—searching for the secret of genius—removed, dissected, and ultimately stole the mathematician’s brain.
Are you unhappy with how various events in your life turned out? Perhaps, in a parallel Universe, things worked out very differently.
It is easy to underestimate how much the world can change within a lifetime.
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