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Scientists believe they have the answer, but philosophers prove them wrong.
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Why are rapture ideologies exploding?
A five-year-old reading a picture book in her pillow fort. A college student and his friends at the midnight matinee. A ninety-year-old watching her soaps. What do they have in […]
If you’ve ever struggled with the strong force, this explanation is a life-saver. If you ask someone to think about some physical phenomenon that’s responsible for any sort of force […]
The size of rabbits and hares has long been evolutionarily constrained by competitors roughly their size.
American universities used to be small centers of rote learning, but three big ideas turned them into intellectual powerhouses.
We can describe what we see happening, but we don’t understand why. Despite our vast cosmic knowledge, enormous unknowns remain. The quantum fluctuations inherent to space, stretched across the Universe […]
A study from Carnegie Mellon University tracks the travels of tarantulas since the Cretaceous period.
Map shows Europe's imminent Great Leap Forward in battery cell production
While Mars is known as a frozen, red planet today, it has all the evidence we could ask for of a watery past, lasting for approximately the first 1.5 billion […]
The research suggests that roughly 1 percent of galaxy clusters look atypical and can be easily misidentified.
A recent study used fMRI to compare the brains of psychopathic criminals with a group of 100 well-functioning individuals, finding striking similarities.
Counterintuitively, directly combating misinformation online can spread it further. A different approach is needed.
In a 2018 article, Gallup writer Ryan Pendell shared some frightening figures for business leaders. Public poll data showed that only a quarter of employees believed their leaders had a […]
Because of our ability to think about thinking, "the gap between ape and man is immeasurably greater than the one between amoeba and ape."
We’ve almost got the entire story. James Webb will put the last piece into place. In all of science, there are really only two ways that something can be “known” to […]
It is impossible for science to arrive at ultimate truths, but functional truths are good enough.
Using urinals, psychological collages, and animated furniture to shock us into reality.
Two different studies provide further evidence of the efficacy of psychedelics in treating depression.