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Stress – and how you manage it – is catching.
Water on Mars is key for human survival on the Red Planet, not just for drinking but for growing food and making fuel and oxygen.
The placebo effect is not the “power of positive thinking.” The fact that it is getting stronger is not a good development.
When we satisfy our curiosity, the brain has a particular way of rewarding us.
If you put very fine black powder powder in a confined space it explodes in a cloud of heat, gas and noise.
Even with leap years and long-term planning, our calendar won’t be good forever. Here’s why, and how to fix it.
Are some of us simple destined for unhappiness?
New ideas inevitably face opposition. A new book called “The Human Element” argues that overcoming opposition requires understanding the concepts of “Fuel” and “Friction.”
A wild, compelling idea without a direct, practical test, the Multiverse is highly controversial. But its supporting pillars sure are stable.
Research reminds us that mild cognitive impairment isn’t necessarily a prelude to dementia.
Next year is the perfect time to have better conversations!
Developing an awareness of and an appreciation for science is what we all truly need, not what we’ve been doing.
A new “common-sense” approach to computer vision enables artificial intelligence that interprets scenes more accurately than other systems do.
A divergence in mortality rates between U.S. states suggests that public health policy plays a substantial role in how long people live.
On larger and larger scales, many of the same structures we see at small ones repeat themselves. Do we live in a fractal Universe?
Family relationships are on many people’s minds during the holiday season as sounds and images of happy family celebrations dominate the media. Anyone whose experiences don’t live up to the holiday […]
In determining what qualifies as solid science, controversy is inevitable.
The surface and atmosphere is colored by ferric oxides. Beneath a very thin layer, mere millimeters deep in places, it’s not red anymore.
One day, we could fly across the U.S. in half an hour. A state-of-the-art hypersonic flight testing facility at UTSA could help make that dream a reality.
Haters and disrespect aside, fruitcake is still a robust American tradition.
The gospels imply that Jesus became famous as much for his exorcisms as his ministry.
For consumers of festive beverages, the news is bad: this holiday season, Guinness may not be on tap and glass for bottling wine is scarce. Climate disasters, like British Columbia’s floods, have further weakened already […]
Ever felt sad during the holidays but weren’t sure why? Chances are you were suffering from a case of Christmas Blues.
The German-American cartoonist introduced the idea that Santa Claus traveled with a sleigh and reindeer.
Just don’t expect the apocalypse to look like it does in the movies.
We know it couldn’t have began from a singularity. So how small could it have been at the absolute minimum?
Venus has far more carbon dioxide in its atmosphere than Earth, which turned our sister planet into an inferno. But how did it get there?
Jean Paul Sartre summed up the existentialist idea of “bad faith” through a waiter who acted a bit too much like a waiter.