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As the Internet takes over from broadcast television, we find ourselves in a new psychological ecosystem—and people's ability or failure to adapt explains the last two years of American politics.
Artificial wombs just got a lot closer to becoming a reality. But who will benefit from this groundbreaking technology? And what do feminists have to say about it?
Forty years ago cat hyperthyroidism didn't exist. Now 10 percent of senior cats suffer from it.
"Space-time is not as static as it appears, it's constantly moving," one researcher said.
A new study by planetary scientists proposes a giant new space object which could have formed the Earth and the moon.
If every infinite outcome were equally likely, we’d never come to be. “Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.” -Ludwig […]
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High school junior Caitlin is worried. She wants to be a scientist but is struggling with it a little bit in school—is there hope for her career?
Two addiction specialists believe we need to reframe the conversation around psychedelics.
The technology behind wireless charging or inductive charging was discovered by Nikola Tesla in the 1890s and utilizes an electromagnetic field to transfer energy between two objects. In chargers, an […]
The Cassini-Huygens telescope has spent the better part of the last two decades finding out more about our galaxy than we could possibly dream of. Here's 14 of the coolest things it has found out.
Studying philosophy has had a major impact on the power players of Silicon Valley.
Will your grandchildren live in cities on Antarctica?
Past or present, if there’s ever been any life at all, it changes everything. “They say once you grow crops somewhere, you have officially ‘colonized’ it. So technically, I colonized […]
How do you even study thinking from that long ago?
Your bones would "explode."
5mins
AI is capable of self-reproduction—should humans be worried?
Clashes between "antifa" on the far left and the alt-right have intensified.
4mins
How we remember time is vastly different to how we experience it, says neuroscientist Dean Buonomano.
A commonly prescribed anti-anxiety medication may have killed the Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell.
Dark energy may be real and the Universe may be accelerating, but does that mean a Big Freeze is inevitable? “It’s everywhere, really. It’s between the galaxies. It is in […]