Why are soda and ice cream each linked to violence? This article delivers the final word on what people mean by "correlation does not imply causation."

A primer on the infinite of knowledge waiting to be learned.

The plan to stop megacorps from owning superintelligence is already underway.

From billions of miles away, a faint, single pixel shows us how precious and alone Earth truly is. There are people alive today who can remember a time where no human-made […]

If you have a strong imagination, this won't help you with academic study.

An emphasis on personal responsibility might explain why conservatives tend to be in better physical health than liberals.

A new book on the music distribution service claims it is.

Number of proton-neutron pairs determine how fast the particles move, results suggest.

Finding your own truth without a guiding mythical worldview.

What have hospitals done for us lately? Actually, quite a lot.

The heaviest elements in the periodic table have their own unique story. No, they don’t come from a supernova. When it comes to the elements of the Universe, every one […]

'For decades, all the major economists … they all believed that we would be working less and less', Rutger Bregman told Davos

That's one way to reduce the national debt.

Unions between Muslims and non-Muslims played a huge part in the expansion of Islam.

Can learning about the great white shark help protect us from cancer?

Why do people buy into stories that are clearly lies? Hannah Arendt can help us understand.

Diversity without inclusion is largely pointless. Beyond superficially satisfying some hiring metric, bringing on an employee who has little chance of thriving deprives the company of diversity’s benefit and puts […]

Maslow's highest level on the hierarchy of needs.

Evolutionarily speaking, being gay is still something of an enigma

It was so well-motivated and compelling. But the particles never appeared. Every so often, an idea comes along in theoretical physics that’s undeniably profound. When a single idea can solve […]