If all forms of energy experience gravitation, then why does dark energy make the expansion accelerate instead of slow down? Of all the revolutionary discoveries that we’ve made about the Universe, […]
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Some volunteers performed above chance. They weren’t the psychics.
That’s five more unicorns than the previous three years combined.
No matter how accurately you place two Plinko chips, you cannot count on the same outcome twice. Of all the pricing games on the iconic television show The Price Is Right, […]
Switching over to a vegan-based diet can drastically cut CO2 emissions. But will Americans actually change their diet?
Barbara J. King on animal emotions, anthropomorphism, and the future of the planet.
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Study confirms the existence of a special kind of groupthink in large groups.
Gig workers suffer from low pay, wage theft, precariousness, dangerous working conditions, and discrimination.
The Flynn effect shows people have gotten smarter, but some research claims those IQ gains are regressing. Can both be right?
Few students will become architects, but architecture may be able teach them more about real-life problem-solving than geometric proofs.
Was the hamburger menu always so ubiquitous?
With the seemingly endless growth of the Democratic primary field, we may suffer from choice overload. The result? In fear of making the wrong choice, we may fail to make any — i.e., don’t vote.
The term socialism makes political discourse difficult. Should we do away with it altogether?
NASA JPL takes a first step toward a GPS for space.
Key performance indicators, KPIs, are not new: It’s said that way back in the third century, China’s Wei dynasty began using them to rate the behavior of members of the […]
Scientists actively researching this have known the answer for quite some time. It’s time for everyone to catch up. The Big Bang happened 13.8 billion years ago, and is generally regarded […]
The Zen of choreographer Merce Cunningham comes alive in a new documentary about his life.
If you traveled in a straight line for far enough, would you come back to where you started? If you were to set out on a journey from anywhere on Earth’s […]
After living through a terrible epidemic, two inventors have created a self-cleaning door handle.
What makes a life worth living as you grow older?
Small sample size? No underlying theory? Conflicts with all other results? It checks all the boxes. There’s nothing that’s special, on a cosmic scale, about our place in the Universe. Not […]
Weijian Shan, chairman of the PAG group, sees a bright future for investors in China, as long as they understand the evolving nature of the country’s economic growth. Though China’s […]
With the realization that overdue charges disproportionately affect access for low-income readers, libraries are reconsidering the value of fees.
Negotiating is often a white-knuckle affair, but the stakes are rarely higher than when the FBI is trying to come to terms with a kidnapper. Chris Voss, now CEO of […]
A long-ridiculed theory about humankind’s early leap of consciousness is revived.
“Sea of Shadows” is a documentary you can’t afford to miss.
The world’s most isolated inhabited island also has some of the world’s strangest toponyms.
An astrophysicist proposes new designs for stellar engines that can move a solar system.
Political activism may get people invested in politics, and affect urgently needed change, but it comes at the expense of tolerance and healthy democratic norms.