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The smallest and faintest stars of all, even the failed stars that didn’t make it, are hiding some fascinating secrets. You might have thought that if we were going to […]
A powerful new tool lights up the brains of worms, and may soon help draw maps of other animals brains.
How close are we to human teleportation? Successes in quantum teleportation experiments abound.
Nihilism is not a choice or intellectual commitment, but a feeling that simply arrives.
The corporate word-stock suffers no shortage of overworked metaphors. We drill down to find low hanging fruit, and despite lots of moving parts obscuring our window of opportunity, we mustn’t […]
It’s 92 billion light-years wide after just 13.8 billion years. And that’s just fine. If there’s one rule that people know about how fast things can move, it’s that there’s a […]
Previous research suggesting it's all about prolactin may be missing the mark.
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The AI constitution can mean the difference between war and peace—or total extinction.
For centuries, universities have advanced humanity toward truth. Professor Jonathan Haidt speaks to why college campuses are suddenly heading in the opposite direction.
Institute for Humane Studies
A new survey shows who believes what and how it differs from what Americans believe as a whole.
Porcine gene edits may allow such transplants without rejection.
Valles Marineris on Mars is 10 times longer and three times deeper than Earth's Grand Canyon.
It’s that the Universe can be understood at all. Don’t deafen yourself to its lessons. In a nutshell, 2020 has been a unique year in human history. For the first time […]
There are five different RAID levels available. Which one is right for you?
Want to tell someone's future in the US? You don't need a crystal ball, just their zip code.
Northwell Health
Scrap getting fitter or eating better and focus more on the people in your life.
A new study suggests that maintaining gut health to avoid diabetes may be little simpler than previously believed.
Plan S is starting to take hold, but the cost is merely shifting even more to the researchers.
A new antibiotic hits germs with a two pronged attack.
A single lifetime is more than enough to take you to the limits of the Universe. Right now, there are only three things limiting how far our spacecrafts can take […]