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A complex biological system must work in concert for gaze detection to occur.
A new game called Factitious aims to help people determine real from fake news online. Will this work? Exploring ways to be more media literate.
Astronomers make the first direct observation of a phenomenon predicted by Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity.
Black holes shouldn’t be this big, much less this big so many billions of years ago. Yet here we are. “Ultramassive black holes — that is, black holes with masses exceeding 10 billion […]
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It turns out Winston Churchill wrote an essay of predictions titled ‘Fifty Years Hence’—and while he was off on the timing, some are finally coming true.
If you think we know it all, you’ll never be ready for the next big breakthrough. When you’re taught the scientific method, you think of a neat procedure you can […]
Instead of nearly-circular ellipses, comets are extraordinarily elongated, or even on an exit path. Why so different? When you look at how the planets orbit in our Solar System, the […]
Can robots tell stories? In a way, yes. We’re far more likely to see robot nursery rhymes than a robot Shakespeare.
Does a good deed “pay off” a bad deed? A lot of people view their actions this way, says Scotty Hendricks.
There’s a smallest scale and a shortest time at which physics makes any sense. What sets that limit? “There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.” –Dick […]
You might think philosophy is a boy’s club. We are here to correct that misconception.
The “Philosopher-King” of comedy is Louis C.K. You may know his work, but you might not realize there is some serious philosophy behind some of the best jokes.
Scientists are starting to run for office to bring evidence-based reasoning back to government.
If you think we’ve seen all there is to see in the Universe, you’re about to have your imagination unlocked. “Hubble often takes images of distant gravitationally lensed galaxies to […]
One study supports imposing artificial restrictions in order to goose creativity.
Comparing NYC to Luxembourg, by way of iceberg A-68
How humanity discovered where our elements come from. This article was written by physicist Paul Halpern of the University of the Sciences in Pennsylvania. Paul is author of the new book […]
We’ve come so far since 2015; what do we know about dark matter now that we didn’t know then? Back in 2015, the dark matter situation was pretty straightforward: the large-scale […]
Researchers plan on making human cells resistant to infection, radiation, and even cancer.
Take a look down. Chances are, you’re looking at a lopsided tangle of bad technique.
Astrobiologist Lewis Dartnell explains why we shouldn’t be afraid of alien visitors.
Many sci-fi technologies will remain in the realm of fiction unless physics changes. But some experiments could uncover just that! “Imagination makes us aware of limitless possibilities. How many of us […]
It’s incredibly simple and straightforward, and the science doesn’t lie. (And yes, global warming played a role!) “The hurricane flooded me out of a lot of memorabilia, but it can’t flood […]
Every year, companies try to do things better, to find the most effective way to complete some task or to improve overall productivity. Employee learning programs play a massive part […]
Much of our sense of what is attractive comes into focus when viewed through the lens of successful reproduction.
New research shows an abundance of testosterone leads to poor decision making.
Handle, the latest robot from Google-backed Boston Dynamics, elicits both excitement and anxiety. The company’s founder has described it as “nightmare-inducing.”
How the gravitational Casimir effect might cause our Universe’s accelerated expansion, without any new physics at all. “For although it is certainly true that quantitative measurements are of great importance, it […]