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Science used to be broad because so few people could afford to do it. Now that more people can participate, the structures need to evolve too. Philosopher Alan Love explains.
We assume there's no preferred frame of reference in the Universe, and that light behaves the same in all directions. What if we're wrong?
The medicines already existed. The challenge was reaching people in time. Muso’s model of proactive community healthcare is showing what becomes possible when care moves closer to families.
Skoll Foundation
Leadership isn't defined only by the biggest moments we face. It's shaped in the moments between them.
We've now found many "conjoined" objects in the asteroid and Kuiper belts, including the first contact trinary, Nysa. What does it all mean?
On Earth's surface, we accelerate at 1g: 9.8m/s². In orbit, the acceleration is only slightly less. So why, then, are astronauts weightless?
Newton thought that gravitation would happen instantly, propagating at infinite speeds. Einstein showed otherwise; gravity isn't instant.
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Lisa Damour breaks down why chasing a permanent state of calm backfires, why naming an emotion can shrink it, and why "feeling bad" can sometimes be the clearest sign of mental health rather than its absence.
A good decision can blow up, and a terrible one can pay off.
At a fundamental level, nobody knows whether gravity is truly quantum in nature. A novel experiment strongly hints that it is.
How do you tell when intuition is offering you reliable information?
11mins
Our ability to build machine intelligence has outrun our ability to understand it. Professor Alan Love, director of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science, thinks biology can help close that gap.
Today, the world's largest operating optical telescope is 10.4 meters in diameter. These 3 facilities will lead astronomy's next generation.
The artistic and the mathematical mind are not so far apart.
6mins
Getting sick shouldn’t cost you everything. In parts of West Africa, it no longer does. Muso has built a collaborative healthcare model that reaches patients within 24 hours, for free — and now governments are scaling it themselves.
Skoll Foundation
With the National Solar Observatory's incredible DKIST, we see the Sun in the highest resolution ever. Its latest images blew us all away.
People whose jobs deal with actual emergencies are trained to slow down first. Here's how to borrow their strategies.
Few wavelengths of light reach Earth's surface; the others require going to space. What can the ultraviolet ASPERA space telescope do?
On a world map of lightning strikes, the world’s busiest sea routes glowed bright — until ships cleaned up their act.