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When we look at our Sun, its properties are incredibly constant, varying by merely ~0.1% over time. But all stars don't play by those rules.
In hospice care and hospitals, we prioritize those with more life to live over those who are terminally ill. What is that, if not prejudice?
We often assume that movement means progress and that doing something is better than doing nothing. That is often not true.
Light can be turned into heat, which can then be turned into motion, and the effect of that motion can be turned into a big squeeze.
Once students master the basics of math, they are allowed to use calculators. The same should be true of writing and ChatGPT.
In our Universe, all stable atomic nuclei have protons in them; there's no stable "neutronium" at all. But what's the reason why?
We are wired to value things more when we work hard at attaining them — even if, objectively, they aren't worth that much.
In December 2022, a company called BioAge Labs published findings on a drug that worked to prevent muscular atrophy, or the loss of muscle strength and mass, in older people.
See the world through the eyes of a horse — or a cake pan.
Thanks to protocols established centuries ago in Europe, world leaders no longer need to worry about having their heads bashed with an axe.
The pursuit of excellence is a noble goal — but constantly having to prove your self-worth can derail your plans for success.
All matter particles can act as waves, and massless light waves show particle-like behavior. Can gravitational waves also be particle-like?
The clash of academic archaeology and what might be called folk archaeology comes into stark focus at Stonehenge.
We need a hypothesis that accounts for both the fine-tuning of physics for life but also the arbitrariness and gratuitous suffering we find in the world.
Artificial intelligence can forecast the behavior of viruses and quickly make vaccines to thwart them.
The combined intellectual heft of multiple “big thinkers” delivered arguably the most successful scientific theory in history.
Survivorship bias occurs when we fail to consider how data was collected. To combat this, search for the "silent evidence."
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There are three kinds of failure. Only one can help you have a better shot of succeeding in the future. A Harvard business professor explains.
With JWST, Chandra, and gravitational lensing combined, evidence has emerged for the earliest black hole ever. And wow, is it a surprise!
Antioxidant vitamins don’t stress us like plants do—and don’t have their beneficial effect.