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Your brain is bursting with ideas, and most of them are … weird. You only have to recall the wonderfully bonkers notions of your childhood. Like the time you wanted […]
When you view your right hand in a mirror, it appears as a left hand. Writing is reversed, as is the direction of any spinning object: clockwise becomes counterclockwise and […]
We live in a world dominated by science, but most people don't understand its most essential characteristic: establishing standards of evidence to keep us from getting fooled by our own biases and opinions.
Theoretical physicist Geoffrey West explains the science behind a unique hypothesis.
Brain-based technologies of spiritual enhancement can induce mystical experiences in many people on demand. What does this mean for spirituality today?
The new record-holder opens up a literal Universe full of possibilities. Someday, even our own Sun will eventually run out of hydrogen fuel in its core, bringing a tremendous set […]
We eat 50 billion chickens every year. Is there a better way?
Astronomers find a third type of supernova and explain a mystery from 1054 AD.
Discovering fossilized insects is difficult, but a new find suggests a unique place to look.
Planets are either rocky, like Earth, or gas-rich, like Neptune, with no in-between. What are the different types of planets that exist in the Universe? If all you could see […]
Most schools use a semester system, but a new study suggests that they should switch to quarters.
Nearly 90% of the world's blind live in low-income countries.
UAE is the world's most expensive country to start a business, but it's free in Rwanda.
A new study mapped areas of the U.S. that are most likely to suffer natural disasters.
All scientific theories, at some level, are wrong. That’s why consensus is so vital. There are two important and common words that, when used scientifically, have a very different meaning than […]
Are you getting a full 8 hours?
An almost 40-year-old theory finally has ‘smoking gun’ evidence for it. During most of their lives, stars burn stably, changing imperceptibly. The rotten egg nebula, at lower right (and shown in […]
The pilot project is in 10 stores and is 85% accurate.
A Nazi institute produced a Bible without the Old Testament that portrayed Jesus as an Aryan hero fighting Jewish people.
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Humans could, in theory, one day use scaling laws to extend our lifespans.