Science and the humanities have been antagonistic for too long. Many of the big questions of our time require them to work closer than ever.
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From high school through the professional ranks, physicists never tire of Newton's second law.
We’re still not sure what the ultimate question is. Here are 5 excellent candidates. One of the most amusing stories in all of science fiction is Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s […]
When we rely on the conscious mind alone, we lose; but when we listen to the body, we gain a winning edge.
Political partisanship might be a treatable condition.
A new study looks at how images of coffee's origins affect the perception of its premiumness and quality.
The very concept of a "problem with no solution" goes against human nature. But we must accept this harsh reality to have peace in our lives.
Argentina's black market for cash is embracing crypto — but it's not what crypto proponents expected.
Searching for happiness in the midst of personal or societal crises are nothing new.
Many contemporary composers live in the shadow of Bach and Beethoven, even though they’re just as interesting to listen to.
The design of a classic video game yields insights on how to address global poverty.
An almost 40-year-old theory finally has ‘smoking gun’ evidence for it. During most of their lives, stars burn stably, changing imperceptibly. The rotten egg nebula, at lower right (and shown in […]
Fear of being scammed can lead us to make decisions that go against our values and goals — both as individuals and as a society.
It’s fundamentally different from space. Here’s how. Here’s a question that most of us have been asked at some point in our lives, “what’s the shortest distance between two points?” By […]
When people pick the greatest scientist of all-time, Newton and Einstein always come up. Perhaps they should name Johannes Kepler, instead.
Any dataset that can be quantified over time can be turned into a contest that is both exciting and (a little bit) enlightening.
Unbelievably enough, it all comes back to Pythagoras. One of the first theorems anyone learns in mathematics is the Pythagorean Theorem: if you have a right triangle, then the square […]
50% of stars are in Sun-like ‘singlet’ systems. The planetary nebulae we see just don’t line up. Around 7 billion years from now, our Sun’s life will end. As the Sun […]
Science journals may be lowering their standards to publish studies with eye-grabbing — but probably incorrect — results.
Do they have real, observable effects, or are they merely calculational tools?
You’re gonna die, cloud! All stars, even our Sun, will someday eventually die. After burning on the main sequence for billions of years, the Sun will expand into a red giant, […]
“It doesn’t erase what happened to you. It just changes the impact it has on your life.”
Scientists discover that under certain conditions two kinds of water exist.
The rites we give to the dead help us understand what it takes to go on living.
The Space Force will soon launch its X-37B spacecraft on a classified mission.
The past ~4 billion years have been an incredibly successful, unbroken run for life on Earth. The future won't be nearly so bright.
Going to smaller and smaller distance scales reveals more fundamental views of nature, which means if we can understand and describe the smallest scales, we can build our way to […]
The fruits of long-term thinking will reveal themselves in five or ten or 30 years, when you’ve created the future you’ve always wanted.
The ESO finds another exoplanet that's definitely not a place for us to go.