What's especially bizarre about the McGurk effect is that knowing you're being duped doesn't correct your perceptions.
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Professional astronomy images are the gold standard. But this Large Magellanic Cloud composite is the amateur community's best image ever.
Like Dua Lipa, he had to create new rules.
While one may be helpful, the other may be harmful.
Though difficult to watch, films like "Shoah" and "Life of Crime" cover topics that should not be ignored.
Wordle activates both the language and logic parts of our brain and give us a nice boost of dopamine, whether we win or lose.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently issued $8 million in follow-up funding to a team of neuroengineers developing brain-to-brain and brain-to-machine technology.
Cotton mask fibers prove 33 percent more effective at blocking viruses in trials.
Just a small gesture or a thoughtful comment can often alter a situation, or people’s perceptions of it, in ways that relieve tensions and make them feel appreciated and included.
Despite Betelgeuse’s recent faintening and brightening, I’d bet on these stars instead. Betelgeuse, a nearby red supergiant, will someday explode. The black hole at the center of the Milky Way should […]
If it weren’t for a subatomic quantum rule, our Universe would be vastly different. In many ways, our views of the distant Universe are the closest things we’ll ever get […]
Binary black holes eventually inspiral and merge. That's why the OJ 287 system is destined for the most energetic event in history.
Alexandre Dumas' famous anecdote about Fake News in the 1800s has a surprising twist.
The Sahara is a harsh environment today. It used to be much, much, worse.
Scientists are seeking ways to safely connect computers to the brain.
In 2006, Pluto was demoted in a very controversial decision. Unless you ignore nearly all of planetary science, it'll never be one again.
If the electromagnetic and weak forces unify to make the electroweak force, maybe, at even higher energies, something even greater happens?
Only 17 years after its discovery have we learned we’re safe from asteroid Apophis. Ever since its 2004 discovery, asteroid 99942 Apophis has threatened planet Earth. Asteroid Apophis has been measured […]
The heart of the religious ritual is mysticism, argues Brian Muraresku in "The Immortality Key."
And if it does strike us, how much damage will it cause? Will near-Earth asteroid Apophis strike us in 2068? Generically, asteroids under ~1 km in size are irregularly shaped, will […]
Even addition has to play by different rules for black holes. How do you add 28 and 47 together? This simple math question helps us highlight the many different ways that […]
Debris from Pluto-sized collisions, not aliens, are streaming through the galaxy. In 2017, scientists discovered an object passing through our Solar System that was unlike anything else we had ever seen. […]
With 5,000 square degrees of data, the Dark Energy Survey has something important to say. For as long as humans have been studying the Universe, we’ve yearned to know the answers […]
Yes, the Universe is expanding, but you might wonder, "How fast is it expanding?"
Is that required for detectors like LIGO and Virgo to work? Whenever any two things in the Universe interact at the same location in spacetime, one thing always remains true about […]
Astrophysicists calculate the likely number of civilization out there capable of communicating with us.
Why would people rate certain names as being more extraverted or more agreeable?
California’s Bobcat Fire has reached Mount Wilson Observatory’s doorstep. 100 years ago, our understanding of the Universe was very different from what it is today. Einstein’s General Relativity, our theory […]
The majority of the matter in our Universe isn't made of any of the particles in the Standard Model. Could the axion save the day?
When three wise men gifted baby Jesus with gold, frankincense, and myrrh, they had no idea one was made from colliding neutron stars.