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Signals from the environment, such as those detected by your sense organs, have no inherent psychological meaning. Your brain creates the meaning.
John Templeton Foundation
Crystallization is an entirely random process, so scientists have developed clever ways to investigate it at a molecular level.
The high pitches from the flute and the harp would reach your ears before the notes from the tuba and the cello.
"I believe our society's gotten to the point where you can't question. You can't provoke. You just have to adhere to consensus."
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He wear no shoeshine, he got toe-jam football…
Everything is made of matter, not antimatter, including black holes. If antimatter black holes existed, what would they do?
When faced with too many choices, many of us freeze — a phenomenon known as "analysis paralysis." Why? Isn't choice a good thing?
In 100 years, perhaps this map showing humanity clustering around the equator will seem “so 21st century.”
Understanding these links could bring us closer to a cure.
Do the laws of physics place a hard limit on how far technology can advance, or can we re-write those laws?
The sky is blue. The oceans are blue. While science can explain them both, the reasons for each are entirely different.
"A cheap loan is beyond all new destiny." Does that mean anything to you?
Science has come a long way since Mary Shelley penned "Frankenstein." But we still grapple with the same questions.
Remote work is here to stay. Here are a few ways to enhance remote training in a post-pandemic future.
Company culture is always evolving — sometimes for the worse.
Are physicists about to decode a mysterious field of science that could have huge implications for your health?
John Templeton Foundation
Could Russia's plan actually destroy demand for natural gas?
At four million solar masses, the Milky Way's supermassive black hole is quite small for a galaxy its size. Did we lose the original?
An experiment in rats suggests that gene editing may be a treatment for anxiety and alcoholism in adults who were exposed to binge-drinking in their adolescence.
To the ancient Greeks, exotic animals were proof of mythological creatures. To the ancient Romans, they were oddities and adversaries.