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This week, Bill Nye tackles one of the most complicated hypotheticals of all time.
6mins
We tell Google things we wouldn't tell our loved ones, or even our own doctors.
It isn’t just supernovae or merging neutron stars. In fact, it’s the quietest way of all! “N6946-BH1 is the only likely failed supernova that we found in the first seven years […]
The jawbone scanned in the study is the oldest hominin fossil ever found.
Silicon Valley insiders are voicing concerns about programmers' deliberate attempts to turn users into addicts.
An MIT study predicts when artificial intelligence will take over for humans in different occupations.
In case you haven’t already heard of CRISPR-Cas9, it is the revolutionary gene-editing technology, discovered just a few years ago, that allows scientists to edit the DNA of any species […]
When you have a decision to make, a behavioral psychologist suggests you ask yourself what you’d advise a friend making this choice.
We may pay a price for abstract thinking.
There’s a point beyond which we cannot go, there are things beyond that we cannot know. But here’s what we expect. “The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it […]
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Should scientists and the more technological minded be given more power in a capitalist world?
Stephen M. Walt, a professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, tackles some seemingly non-controversial statements about human rights, democracy, and international law.
A new study indicates that the brain can detect and help avoid diseases in others through the senses of sight and smell alone.
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Russian hacking is changing the game in global warfare by taking the battlefield to the internet, where Facebook is the front line.
Elon Musk and many top CEOs condemned President Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris Agreement on climate change.
Genetic changes in Egypt might have been caused by trade routes.
Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Writer Ariel Levy on the silence around the animal facts of women's physical lives, her comically awkward experience with the shamanic hallucinogen Ayahuasca, and much more.
It’s not too late to change course, but we’re headed in the wrong direction faster than ever now. “Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,For strip-mined mountain’s majesty above the asphalt […]
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Can democracy remain vibrant if the public, and especially children, don't have the tools to distinguish sense from nonsense?
Known as Cunningham's Law, it is the assertion that "the best way to get a right answer on the internet is to post a wrong answer." It turns out our impulse to correct a wrong online may outweigh our desire to merely give answers.