A new brain imaging study explored how different levels of the brain’s excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmitters are linked to math abilities.
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Using physics, Ross Chastain floored it during the final turn, scraping the wall and passing 5 cars to advance to the NASCAR championship.
The fully functional plant will serve to demo TerraPower’s nuclear tech.
How do you recover after an economic apocalypse? It is not what you know, but who you know.
“The digital HQ – the digital infrastructure that supports productivity and collaboration – actually became more important than the physical HQ.”
The world isn’t ending! But we are likely at the beginning of a profound transformation.
As bad as this sounds, a new essay suggests that we live in a surprisingly egalitarian age.
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?
It’s the early 20th century, and you are the captain of a ship. A barquentine specifically—three masts and a coal-burning steam engine in her belly. She’s a sturdy and capable […]
According to a man that knows more than 20 languages, the key is to start in the middle.
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Digital currencies are set to upend paper currencies, but it likely won’t be the decentralized utopia some hope it will be.
Astrophysicists once believed in a static Universe, containing only the Milky Way galaxy. Science definitively proved otherwise.
A simple trick allowed marine biologists to prove a long-held suspicion.
Their goal is a digital model of the Earth that depicts climate change in all of its complexity.
With radio and X-ray data combined, we’re understanding how energy flows like never before. When we look out at the Universe on the largest cosmic scales of all, gravity is the […]
Though these ancient settlers of China were culturally cosmopolitan, their DNA turns out to have been completely distinct from the communities with which they interacted.
Our minds seem both physical and intangible. That paradox has gripped this neuroscientist since childhood.
The death of God didn’t strike Nietzsche as an entirely good thing. Without a God, the basic belief system of Western Europe was in jeopardy.
New research shines a light on the genetics of sudden cardiac deaths.
How does the COVID-19 pandemic affect relationships? One study aims to find out. If you have 20 minutes, take the survey!
Earth is the Solar System’s only known inhabited planet. Could Venus, if its phosphine signal is real, be our second world with life?
The most feared sexually transmitted disease (STD) of the last half-millennium was usually named after foreigners, often the French.
Types of therapy are about as different as the people who use it.
Research reminds us that mild cognitive impairment isn’t necessarily a prelude to dementia.
Augmented reality (AR) contact lenses will project the digital world into our retinas, perhaps helping us navigate the metaverse.
Admit it: you have no idea why a group of crows is called a murder. Here’s why.
After my father died, my journey of rediscovery began with the Czech language.
Empty, intergalactic space is just 2.725 K: not even three degrees above absolute zero. But the Boomerang Nebula is even colder.
Haunting photographs depict the dead as “still with us.”
Having grown kids still at home is not likely to do you, or them, any permanent harm.