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A new study links heavy alcohol usage with dementia. Other research finds that soon we might not be able to tolerate alcohol at all.
A top-secret government airline that flies to locations like Area 51 is put in a spotlight by a recent ad and an unexpected connection to the Las Vegas shooting.
What do Finland, bacon, and basketball have in common? They’re all part of our new series, the Random Fact Roundup.
At the same time MDMA is showing promise as a PTSD therapy, ecstasy is being cut with all sorts of nasty chemicals on the street.
Those at risk for breast cancer should pay particular attention.
If the neural crest hypothesis is correct, humans are the first domesticated animals. But who, or what, tamed us?
A theory proposes that the universe is not speeding up in its expansion but that time is actually slowing down.
In her enlightening new book, Blue Dreams, Lauren Slater covers the history of psychotropic drugs.
If you want to know how we get something from nothing, you’d better understand what we mean! When we look around at our world and Universe today, we talk and think […]
Have you ever been curious about how curiosity works?
It took the Universe 9.2 billion years to create the Earth, and another 4 billion for complex life. Could we have gotten there faster? The story of how the Universe came […]
An anthropologist and a theologian walk into a room. The punchline is wise and wonderful.
Poachers trade on a black market estimated to total $40 billion. It’s impossible to stop every poacher, but new technology could bolster the efforts of conservationists by putting a set of eyes in the sky.
The NASA probe to Saturn went out in a blaze of glory last week.
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“Enforcing language norms is a way of enforcing power structures.”
Studies have also shown that two weeks of sleep deprivation increases the consumption of excess calories, particularly from energy-dense, high-carbohydrate snacks.
Fatih Akin has first-hand experience of strong cultural cross-winds. Ethnically Turkish and raised in Germany, he has made many films dealing with sudden dislocation and how people respond to it.
A new report charges that there hasn’t yet been enough concerted research on what makes a person become a mass shooter.
These findings may help us better understand how humans perceive our environment and make decisions based on sensory information.
It’s the first, most naive question you might think to ask. The solution is a lot more complicated than you imagine. According to a large amount of evidence, the overwhelming majority […]
The Vatican puts the number of Catholics in the world at 1.2 billion. But is that number accurate? And who do they count among their ranks?
Unless you can make a force that travels faster than the speed of light, a singularity is inevitable. The more mass you place into a small volume of space, the […]
If nothing can escape from beneath the event horizon, where do these phenomena come from? The most important feature of a black hole is that it has an event horizon: a […]
In 2016, the number of opioid-related deaths hit 42,000, an all-time record. But gun deaths were nearly that same number, and have been consistently that high. If you want to know […]
A major clinical trial finds that diet quality beats calorie counting for the best weight loss strategy.
If we’re going to treat psychological suffering as effectively as we treat pneumonia and broken bones, we’d better think outside the box.
Once a lucrative exercise anyone could do, bitcoin mining has grown out of control, and governments are weighing what to do.
A recent psychology study examines the importance of intellectual humility in decision-making related to politics, health and work.
Even our scientific heroes can’t be right about everything. Let’s learn the lessons that they never did. In the 1960s, a young theoretical physicist named Stephen Hawking rose to prominence as […]