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Plato and Carl Sagan were wrong about the human brain, says a top neuroscientist.
With hundreds of billions of stars burning bright, some galaxies are already dead. Their inhabitants might not know it, but we're certain.
The Foo Fighters are at the dead center of the map, so all the other bands are happier, sadder, angrier, or hornier.
There are 40 billion billion black holes in the universe. Here’s how our Solar System stacks up against ten of them.
"In witness whereof, the parties hereunto have set their hands to these presents as a deed on the day month and year hereinbefore mentioned."
From gene expression to protein design, large language models are creating a suite of powerful genomic tools.
Mary Toft staged an elaborate hoax, but the pain was real.
You'll be able to sleep through a war.
“Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself — and there isn’t one.”
John Templeton Foundation
Who’s afraid of utopia? AI doubters have cold feet. History can warm them.
Impossible standards and poor self-understanding are making us miserable.
We don't know what causes Miyake events, but these great surges of energy can help us understand the past — while posing a threat to our future.
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Johns Hopkins professor Dr. Matthew Johnson answers 24 huge questions about psychedelics.
If you think you know what sex, gender, and "the right thing to do" for trans youth and adults are, be sure it agrees with actual science.
Tardigrades can completely dehydrate and later rehydrate themselves, a survival trick that scientists are harnessing to preserve medicines in hot temperatures.
We will have a better shot at improving our lives once we come to understand, know, and love the people we will one day become.
It's a useful fiction — but it's still fiction.
Before Rome was an empire, it was a republic. And before it was a republic, it was a kingdom ruled by seven mythical kings — some better than others.
Exoplanet LP 791-18d is likely to have an atmosphere and liquid water.
Energy balance is the greatest arbiter of weight gain. Embrace the "oinker diet."