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Forget little green men: These scientists say we should be more worried about little green germs.
Role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons offer a valuable insight: Life is about shifting labels.
The most technically impressive feats of animation often strike us as eerie instead of impressive, and it’s all thanks to the uncanny valley.
Binary black holes eventually inspiral and merge. That's why the OJ 287 system is destined for the most energetic event in history.
The singer-songwriter distilled the essence of the holidays into a hit song, and for her efforts she was crowned the Queen of Christmas.
Politics, meet sports.
SpinLaunch's launcher, which is larger than the Statue of Liberty and works like the Olympic hammer-throw event, just came online in the New Mexico desert.
Between fake vaccine passports and targeted supply chain attacks, things are only getting more risky.
Why does Seattle continue to be a place that nurtures the development of breakthrough technologies but not Minneapolis, Memphis, or Minsk?
Roughly half the world population, including in America, has insufficient levels of vitamin D. UV irradiated mushrooms can help.
Our brains might be flooded with the hallucinogen DMT as we die, leading to vivid dreams.
Cities overstimulate our senses and are full of people we don't know. Maybe humans were meant for this.
Our Solar System's outer reaches, and what's in them, was predicted long before the first Oort Cloud object was ever discovered.
Purely physical and chemical processes can deceive us into thinking that life is present, when it actually is not.
Today, every Homo species is extinct besides humans. But one of our close evolutionary relatives still lives on in our DNA.
Think leisure is pointless?
As the saying goes: “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional”.
No matter how hard we try, we will never reach a final theory that unifies scientific knowledge. The very nature of science doesn't allow it.