Physicist Don Lincoln explains why mathematics is a powerful tool for scientific modeling, but is not a science itself.
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The latest from Peter Leyden’s “The Great Progression: 2025 to 2050”, an essay series published by Freethink.
An evidence-based policy movement is arming the fight with tools and programs that are more effective than ever before.
The sober reality behind the effectiveness of two new drugs touted as Alzheimer’s breakthroughs: lecanemab and donanemab.
New experiments find weird quantum activity in supercold gas.
Already 14 billion miles from the Sun, Voyager 1 is speeding away at 38,000 mph.
A fascinating new book tells the untold stories of two women, Jackie Cochran and Jerrie Cobb, who could have been first. On June 18, 1983, the Space Shuttle Challenger launched with […]
On the first episode of The Portal, Eric Weinstein and Peter Thiel discuss the future of education.
Physicists discover strikingly similar structures in human cells and neutron stars.
Not every butcher’s map has a Tenderloin District
Between Microsoft’s racist chatbot to beating the world GO champion, artificial intelligence has better things to do than whatever we’re afraid of. Here’s a recap of the highlights.
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When we look across the Universe, we find that things used to be closer together in the past. So how large do things appear when they’re very far away? “Life is […]
What will it mean to have a dissenter like Chuck Hagel as an ombudsman at the top at the Defense Department?
The same mindset that drives a person to have it all eventually stops them from having what they really want.
We, the living, have won the history jackpot. As centuries go, the 20th century ranks as exceptional, a hard to fathom whirlwind. (The apocalyptic way Stalin and Hitler mass-murdered side-by-side.) […]
President Obama ought to be in a lot of trouble. With the economy still as bad as it is after three years in office, his prospects for reelection should be […]
This essay was previously published on AlterNet. Last November, I attended a debate in the NYU Intelligence Squared series on the topic, “Would the World Be Better Off Without Religion?” […]
–Guest post by Jan Lauren Boyles, American University doctoral student. Eloquent eulogies have wistfully mourned the Ghosts of Journalism Past – the muckrakers, the ink-stained wretches and the shoe-leather reporters. The […]
n Since 2003, IDEO has distributed more than 10,000 decks of its Method Cards to innovators and creative types around the world. Now, the legendary design & innovation firm is […]
In the coming years, we’ll see a convergence of new platforms for posing grand challenges and new tools to allow anyone to address these challenges.
Most hot ideas and discoveries fade with time. But some scientific papers are genuine breakthroughs, whose importance only increases as the decades pass. This one, published in Science last week, […]
The slow extrusion of a new dome continues on Redoubt, but we are getting some new insights into eruption processes in the Aleutians thanks to the activity.
Tuesday marks the 30th anniversary of the historic eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington – and Eruptions readers share their memories on the blast that captivated the world.
Judd Apatow: comic visionary, insightfully raunchy, slacker hero… conservative crusader? Ross Douthat smartly makes the case that Apatow is leading the charge in making socially conservative lifestyles seem cool to […]