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Billions of years ago, the ever-increasing entropy must've been much lower: the past hypothesis. Here's how cosmic inflation solves it.
Today’s scary clowns are not a divergence from tradition, but a return to it.
Who doesn't love a little existential fear every once in a while?
Is history decided by discernible laws or does it unfold based on random, unpredictable occurrences?
The largest hazardous asteroid found in the last 8 years showcases a little-known class of planet-killers. And we're woefully unprepared.
The answer may depend on your lifestyle.
In the future, people may look back with horror at how humans treated AI in the 21st century.
One possible vision of the distant future.
Does it have a deeper significance — or is it just a number?
Parents want the best for their kids, but resilience helps children better cope with life's unavoidable challenges.
There is one House member for every 761,169 people, which isn't exactly representative.
Studying neuroscience through art.
A long-maligned treatment outperforms the trendy one.
Some patients wait over 5 years for a liver transplant.
A technique called targeted memory reactivation could improve common treatments for nightmare disorder.
In 1974, Stephen Hawking showed that even black holes don't live forever, but emit radiation and eventually evaporate. Here's how.
The “scientific Buddha” and the idea of Buddhist exceptionalism with regard to science are modern creations.
The value of art does not lie in the artwork itself but is instead determined by curators, collectors, critics, and other participants in the modern-day art market.
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