A team at MIT has discovered that human brains are capable of “seeing” ghost images hidden between groups of patterns captured by single-pixel cameras.
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Haley, who’s at times been both a supporter and critic of the president, reportedly “shocked” White House officials by announcing the end of her two-year tenure as a U.N. ambassador.
One possible solution to the opioid epidemic is already accessible in several states, with more to come.
Diversity & inclusion (D&I) ranks among some of the top areas of importance for organizations in the United States. While it is a popular buzzword, it’s also an integral part […]
In 2015, the ultra-distant galaxy CR7 was measured to have hydrogen and helium, but no carbon or oxygen. With new ALMA observations, there’s carbon after all. As brilliant as our Universe’s […]
The Spilhaus Projection may be more than 75 years old, but it has never been more relevant than today.
Caffeine is consumed by some 90% of Americans every day, but not everyone is getting the most of its stimulating effects.
Virtual reality is now approaching mainstream, but with so little research available it’s difficult to determine the dangers of VR for children.
For many years the concept of virtual worlds and far flung digital realities was the stuff of speculative fiction and philosophy. But it may soon take over the world.
Some of the meteorites that strike our planet originate from our red neighbor, Mars. Here’s how we know. As the planets orbit the Sun, well-separated from one another, we tend to […]
The coming few years should really tell us a lot more about them.
In the earliest stages of the Universe, before there were protons or neutrons, we had a quark-gluon plasma. The story of our cosmic history is one of an expanding and […]
Immigrants who come to the U.S. are significantly less likely than U.S.-born individuals to have mental health problems, according to a new study published in Psychiatry Research.
If the Sun is 93 million miles away, why does sunlight filtering through the clouds or the trees spread out? Rays of sunshine are one of those natural sights that leave […]
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft taught us more than we ever imagined about Saturn. Could we do something similar for Uranus and Neptune? From where we are in the Solar System, looking out […]
The ICARUS Initiative aims to track migratory animals from space using special transmitters and antennae. The data retrieved from the project will help us conserve biodiversity but has the potential to promote human well-being and prosperity, too.
A team of archaeologists has discovered 3,200-year-old cheese after analyzing artifacts found in an ancient Egyptian tomb. It could be the oldest known cheese sample in the world.
Colorado and Oregon are leading the charge.
A new experimental program in New Jersey offered treatment, not stigma, to low-level drug offenders arrested during one week in June—and the results are encouraging.
Digging deeper into the mystery of the brain, soul, and consciousness.
Can we make progress in a world in which we don’t trust our institutions?
Kim Kardashian is meeting with Jared Kushner and President Donald Trump on Wednesday to talk prison reform and the case of Alice Marie Johnson, who’s service life for a nonviolent crime.
Turn on, tune in, and drop out and into a good psychedelic book.
The way we represent other genders or ethnicities in literary fiction shows the limitations of our capacity for empathy and compassion.
There’s a difference between having a harmonious passion and an obsessive one.
The Universe is an enormous place, but we can’t see all the way back to the beginning. Here’s the latest record-breaker. No matter how far back we look in the […]
Practical philosopher Andrew Taggart talks about what is an excellent human life, what are the first steps to achieving it and what a society without work looks like.
Facebook disclosed to Congress last week that it gave 61 companies special access to user data in 2015, a revelation that differs from the social media company’s past claims.
A study finds that re-conditioning married individuals by linking spouse photos to pictures of puppies and bunnies makes us like our mates more.