Multiple lines of evidence — physical, chemical, and biological — must converge for scientists to conclude that alien life has been found.
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When maps meet stamps, you get a love child called “cartophilately.”
Scientific pluralism is the notion that some questions must be approached from many angles. How can we integrate these scientific models?
Even a year like 2020 couldn’t prepare Americans for the first few weeks of 2021. The year’s opening act was a siege on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of […]
The way that the ancient Megalodon adapted to water temperature has important implications for modern marine creatures.
Neutrons can be stable when bound into an atomic nucleus, but free neutrons decay away in mere minutes. So how are neutron stars stable?
Every December, the Geminid meteor shower reaches its peak. Its 2021 show will be spectacular, but only if you do it right.
A wild, compelling idea without a direct, practical test, the Multiverse is highly controversial. But its supporting pillars sure are stable.
Science is an ongoing flirtation with the unknown.
Three fundamental forces matter inside an atom, but gravity is mind-bogglingly weak on those scales. Could extra dimensions explain why?
Try this: It’s about 10 times the number of cups of water in all the oceans of Earth.
If light can’t be bent by electric or magnetic fields (and it can’t), then how do the Zeeman and Stark effects split atomic energy levels?
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Debate is a verbal sport with winners and losers. As such, it is less about the truth and more about who looks and sounds the best.
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Our ancestral cousins far more intelligent than we credit them for, and they did things most of us cannot.
Research shows that those who spend more time speaking tend to emerge as the leaders of groups, regardless of their intelligence.
The more social behaviors a voice-user interface exhibits, the more likely people are to trust it, engage with it, and consider it to be competent.
The mediocrity principle is often used to make claims about the abundance of life across the universe, but these claims are likely unfounded.
When we satisfy our curiosity, the brain has a particular way of rewarding us.
According to Sigmund Freud, our revulsion at taboos is an attempt to suppress a part of us that actually wants to do them.
Just 13.8 billion years after the hot Big Bang, we can see 46.1 billion light-years away in all directions. Doesn’t that violate…something?
Emotional intelligence is a skill sought by many employers. Here’s how to raise yours.
Planet Earth has been around for over 4.5 billion years, but humans? For 99.998% of our planet’s history, humans were nowhere to be found.
Without modularization, many epic projects simply would be impossible.
There may be thousands of undiscovered mammal species in the world. Most are small, like bats and rodents, but there could be primates, too. A lifeline for Bigfoot enthusiasts?
No. But Buddhism and quantum mechanics have much to teach each other.
If used improperly, the metaverse could be more divisive than social media and an insidious threat to society and even reality itself.
Think of the nicest person you know. The person who would fit into any group configuration, who no one can dislike, or who makes a room warmer and happier just […]
The stars stood no chance against the more-massive black holes.