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Science is for everyone, even those possessing strongly held beliefs that seem to conflict with the best available evidence.
In 1974, Hawking showed that black holes aren’t stable, but emit radiation and decay. Nearly 50 years later, it isn’t just for black holes.
All religions have totems, rites, and taboos that are considered “sacred.” Émile Durkheim believed society is largely underpinned by them.
A physicist creates an AI algorithm that predicts natural events and may prove the simulation hypothesis.
These initially sympathetic characters take readers down a dark path.
There is nothing more important to science than its ability to prove ideas wrong.
A Harvard astronomer went to the bottom of the ocean, claiming he recovered alien technology. But what does the science actually indicate?
Role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons offer a valuable insight: Life is about shifting labels.
Regardless of political ideology, one of the few things that many people seem to have in common is a moral hypocrisy that arises from a fundamental lack of self-reflection.
What happens when simulation theory becomes more than a fascinating thought experiment?
Simple physics makes hauling vast ice chunks thousands of miles fiendishly difficult — but not impossible.
In theory, the fabric of space could have been curved in any way imaginable. So why is the Universe flat when we measure it?
What do communist dictators Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong have in common with U.S. Presidents like John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan? Hint: It’s the same thing they have in […]
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William Shatner is going to space because Jeff Bezos loves Star Trek.
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A 2020 study revived a longstanding controversy over Christopher Columbus’ claims of marauding cannibals in the Caribbean.
Arguments are a normal and often healthy part of a relationship. It all depends on picking the right kind of arguments, though.
New studies stretch the boundaries of physics, achieving quantum entanglement in larger systems.
Asking science to determine what happened before time began is like asking, “Who were you before you were born?”
How can you maximize the amount of love and happiness in your life? One of history’s greatest scientists found the answer: with math.
Life became a possibility in the Universe as soon as the raw ingredients were present. But living, inhabited worlds required a bit more.
Holograms preserve all of an object’s 3D information, but on a 2D surface. Could the holographic Universe idea lead us to higher dimensions?
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