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The relationship between these two ways of thinking about the world deserves deeper exploration.
Success can be measured in different ways. When it hinges entirely on our careers, we fall victim to a devastating addiction.
The dark genome makes up 98% of human DNA. Scientists are just beginning to understand its role in cognitive disorders.
A century ago, electric cars were common. The fact that they were almost entirely replaced due to the internal combustion engine is a testament to the glacial pace of battery breakthroughs.
The knobby starfish skeleton has diamond-like properties and could inspire new designs for lightweight, highly resilient ceramics, with widespread applications in engineering and construction.
“When molecules misbehave, it can lead to great insight.”
Mammals have a history stretching back 325 million years. To study that ancient history is to know our own origins.
Some constants, like the speed of light, exist with no underlying explanation. How many “fundamental constants” does our Universe require?
Going door-to-door on All Hallows Eve to beg for ‘soul cakes’?
Was our distant ancestor a biped or not – i.e., human or not human?
After mammoth investments and two decades of anti-aging research, what do immortality proponents have to show for it?
The anthropic principle has fascinating scientific uses, where the simple fact of our existence holds deep physical lessons. Don’t abuse it!
It could evolve, strengthen, decay, or not be alone. Our known Universe contains matter, radiation, and dark energy. While matter (both normal and dark) and radiation become less dense as […]
Your inner voice can be the devil on your shoulder or the angel. It depends on where your focus lies.
When stars form, they emit energetic radiation that boils gas away. But it can’t stop gravitational collapse from making even newer stars.
If we were born trillions of years in the future, could we even figure out our cosmic history?
Bears, chimps, or humans? A track of five poorly preserved footsteps at Laetoli has puzzled paleontologists for decades. Now, a research paper from Nature claims to have solved the mystery.
To date, only one research vessel has ever encountered a milky sea.
As particles travel through the Universe, there’s a speed limit to how fast they’re allowed to go. No, not the speed of light: below it.
It’s no longer just VR vs. AR. There is an alphabet soup of metaverse acronyms, often used imprecisely. So, what do they all mean?
The highest-energy particles of all come from space, not human-made colliders. When it comes to the most energetic particle collisions of all, you might think that the Large Hadron Collider […]
From up close, the cracking sound of a thunderclap dominates. From far away, it’s more like a drawn-out rumble. Can science explain why?
Gravitation, all on its own, can reveal what’s present in the cosmos like nothing else.
This article was originally published on our sister site, Freethink. Fifteen volunteers in France just spent more than a month living in a cave — without any way to tell time — […]
With change management training, learning and development leaders can help their talent avoid the common pitfalls that stall transformation.
Galaxies can have regions both hotter and colder than the background radiation of the Universe. When we talk about the depths of space, we get this picture in our heads […]
We asked our experts where they see the biggest blockers right now for more progress. Essentially, from their various areas of focus, what did they see as the largest impediments to driving progress forward around the world and how they would prioritize the necessary interventions? The answers were appropriately varied from the philosophical to the political to the technological.
About the project The goal of driving more progress across the world—scientifically, politically, economically, socially, etc—is one shared by many. And yet, debates about the best way to maximize progress […]