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Memory, responsibility, and mental maturity have long been difficult to describe objectively, but neuroscientists are starting to detect patterns. Coming soon to a courtroom near you?
If argumentation led to nothing, it would soon be thrown into the evolutionary dustbin.
Haunting photographs depict the dead as "still with us."
Carnivorous plants fascinate as much now as when their gruesome diet was first discovered.
Binary black holes eventually inspiral and merge. That's why the OJ 287 system is destined for the most energetic event in history.
Bitcoin is often derided as volatile, but a new report suggests there is a method to the madness.
Have any of the stars we can see burned themselves out completely? When we look out across the Universe, we’re also peering back in time. In the early 21st-century, we’ve […]
Scientists believe they have the answer, but philosophers prove them wrong.
Map shows oldest buildings for each U.S. state – but also hints at what's missing.
The Baltic nation rolls out an unlikely tourist attraction: 47 weird ice cream flavors.
Mexico City, already progressive, takes more steps to protect its LGBT+ citizens.
According to international law, the seabed belongs to everyone.
From the mid-19th century, fossils were used as evidence for continental drift – but mainstream scientists didn't buy it until the 1950s.
Scientists discovered microbes that have lived on Earth for millions of years.
YouTube's constantly changing hate speech and harassment policies beg the question: Where exactly is the line?
Two maps show two very different takes on the huge discrepancies in U.S. life expectancy
She met mere mortals with and without the Vatican's approval.
The accelerated expansion of the Universe is one of the greatest puzzles today. Could this out-of-the-box idea explain it without dark energy? When it comes to our quest to understand the […]
Why not just put your detectors in place of a giant mirror? “Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.” –Yousuf […]
How looking at a single, distant galaxy cluster can show us the invisible mass filling our space like nothing else. “We find them smaller and fainter, in constantly increasing numbers, and […]
Life may not be a rarity after all, but the result of a certain set of conditions.
And even with them all in place, what do we still not know? “The joy of life consists in the exercise of one’s energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of […]
One graph claims to show the inverting relationship between inequality and opportunity. The Great Gatsby Curve sheds light on one of the key issues of our time.
All pointing toward the Standard Model plus General Relativity not being all there is. “The Universe is very, very big. It also loves a paradox. For example, it has some extremely […]
It doesn’t interact with normal matter hardly at all, and yet it may be necessary for life itself. “The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.” –Joseph Campbell Dark […]
The “constant points of light” in the sky are often anything but. “To be is to be the value of a variable.” –Willard Van Orman Quine We look up at […]
Spoiler: NO, not a chance. Now find out why. “There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best […]
A few weeks ago Mayor of London Boris Johnson said some questionable things about IQ tests and the benefits of greed, income inequality and shaking boxes of cornflakes. Dorothy Bishop wrote an […]
Today’s breaking news was, of course, that the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as “Obamacare”. In what will doubtless go down in American history […]