A physics paper proposes neither you nor the world around you are real. | Continue reading
Northwestern University researchers discover the unexpected origins of half the atoms in our bodies. | Continue reading
The Black Death was a ruthless killer – and, if you were lucky, a swift one. Its more fortunate victims "ate lunch with their friends, and dinner with their ancestors in paradise," wrote Giovanni Boccaccio, who lived through the initial wave of the Plague as it struck Italy in th … | Continue reading
When Alexa replied to my question about the weather by tacking on 'Have a nice day,' I immediately shot back 'You too,' and then stared into space, slightly embarrassed. | Continue reading
From "if-by-whiskey" to the McNamara fallacy, being able to spot logical missteps is an invaluable skill. | Continue reading
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The U.S. has a talent shortage and the formerly incarcerated have paid their debt to society. Let's solve two problems with one idea. | Continue reading
Researchers confirmed that the mummy known as Takabuti died from a stab wound to the back. | Continue reading
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Ever think you’d see a single atom without staring down the barrel of a microscope? | Continue reading
Meteorologists propose a stunning new explanation for the mysterious events in the Bermuda Triangle. | Continue reading
The idea that celestial objects exist within utterly immense cosmic structures is becoming inescapable. | Continue reading
When facing a tough decision, it pays to trust your gut. | Continue reading
Advancing space travel generally involves building more powerful and efficient engines for space vehicles like rockets or shuttles. But what if instead of an individual spacecraft, you took our whole solar system on a ride through the galaxy by moving the sun? Such is the not-too … | Continue reading
A growing body of research suggests that the "clinical pessimism" over treating psychopathy is unwarranted. | Continue reading
A long-ridiculed theory about humankind's early leap of consciousness is revived. | Continue reading
Beyond the microchip lies quantum computing. Beyond that lies quark-scale computing, made from materials a billion billion billion times smaller than the current computational scale. | Continue reading
A new paper suggests that the mysterious X17 subatomic particle is indicative of a fifth force of nature. | Continue reading
It's one of our five major personality traits, and arguably, it's the worst one. Why are some human beings neurotic? | Continue reading
It's important to challenge "good enough" explanations. | Continue reading
When the protection of academic freedom is compromised, scholarship and greater society suffer the effects. | Continue reading
Maybe it's time to show this report your employer? | Continue reading
In 1930, a year into the Great Depression, John Maynard Keynes sat down to write about the economic possibilities of his grandchildren. | Continue reading
Physicist plans to karate-chop them with super-fast blasts of light. | Continue reading
After a comprehensive study, researchers came to a startling conclusion. | Continue reading
The under-recognized condition affects workers in offices across the globe. | Continue reading
Philosopher Nick Bostrom's "singleton hypothesis" predicts the future of human societies. | Continue reading
As the American loneliness epidemic reaches alarming new heights, one artist theorizes on what connection might look like in the future. | Continue reading
Bernardo Kastrup proposes a new ontology he calls “idealism” built on panpsychism, the idea that everything in the universe contains consciousness. He solves problems with this philosophy by adding a new suggestion: The universal mind has dissociative identity disorder. | Continue reading
According to recent papers by Zucman, and his colleague Emmanuel Saez, one should be implemented. | Continue reading
Creativity is more than finding new solutions to abstract problems presented in laboratory settings, and a new study out of Northwestern University is one of the first to measure what qualities correlate with creative achievement in the real world. | Continue reading
How do you develop the next big idea? You pull together people who are both curious and passionate. | Continue reading
Scientists find that bursts of gamma rays may exceed the speed of light and cause time-reversibility. | Continue reading
So much for rest in peace. | Continue reading
A new paradigm for machine vision has just been demonstrated. | Continue reading
Scientific advancement is more than a series of experiments: it is often a debate among scientists with fundamentally different points of view. Niels Bohr knew this firsthand thanks to Einstein. | Continue reading
How the half-hour commute and motorised transport changed our cities into huge metropolises. | Continue reading
A scientist in Sweden makes a controversial presentation at a future of food conference. | Continue reading
While nobody wants to die, Emanuel believes that the alternative, degeneration, is worse: "living too long is also a loss," he states in his original essay. For a great deal of Americans these kinds of disabilities and loss of health severely limits what they can do and accomplis … | Continue reading
Using a new process, a mini-brain develops retinal cells. | Continue reading