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From the Palace of the Soviets to The Illinois, these unmade buildings would have taken the art of architecture to whole new heights.
Who should be compensated?
Our bodies crave more food if we haven’t had enough protein, and this can lead to a vicious cycle.
There are pros and cons to sending interstellar messages to aliens that may or may not exist.
The nature of civilizational threats has changed in a mere decade.
If more people decide to apply pressure through their choices, slowly but surely we would reach climate change herd immunity.
Predicting how emerging technologies will impact industry is more difficult than it seems—and it seems plenty difficult. The reason is that we envision the future based on the present. We […]
Most people have a distorted view of what being a scientist is like. Scientists need to make a greater effort to challenge stereotypes.
It can sometimes feel like career progress is beyond your control. This can be especially acute if you are a young professional or entering a new industry. You’re too inexperienced, […]
Moral dilemmas reveal the limitations of ethical principles. Oddly, the most principled belief system might not have any principles at all.
Distinguishing fact from fiction can be tough, especially when it comes to people as controversial as Stalin.
The Church of England is debating if believers should stop using gendered language when talking about God.
When the average person has a “theory,” they’re just guessing. But for a scientist, a theory is the pinnacle of what we can achieve.
Brain-computer interfaces could enable people with locked-in syndrome and other conditions to “speak.”
The way to understand the earliest moments of creation is to recreate those conditions and study them. Why would we stop now?
From unexplained tracks in a balloon-borne experiment to cosmic rays on Earth, the unstable muon was particle physics’ biggest surprise.
It took 9.2 billion years of cosmic evolution before our Sun and Solar System even began to form. Such a small event has led to so much.
In all the Universe, only a few particles are eternally stable. The photon, the quantum of light, has an infinite lifetime. Or does it?
Real-time online learning is where our dated education system is heading.
Uploading your mind is not a pathway to immortality. Instead, it will create a possibly hostile digital doppelgänger.
Is history decided by discernible laws or does it unfold based on random, unpredictable occurrences?
Is LK-99 truly a room temperature superconductor? These 4 tests, none of which have yet been passed, will separate fact from fiction.
Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago find that death triggers increased activity in certain brain cells.
Game theory is a unique combination of math and psychology. Its applications turn up everywhere, from nuclear war to Tinder to game shows.
Malignant discrimination remains a problem in society, but it’s one we’ve improved upon compared to its historic highs—or, rather, lows. Interracial marriage, to pick one example of progress, used to […]
Astronomers in 2017 caught an image of a supermassive black hole in a galaxy far, far away. Doing it in our own galaxy is a huge milestone.
Scientists agree that eons ago, a bacterium took up residence inside another cell and became its powerhouse, the mitochondrion. But there are competing theories about the birth of other organelles such as the nucleus and endoplasmic reticulum.
Robots must identify themselves.