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Unless you confront your theory with what's actually out there in the Universe, you're playing in the sandbox, not engaging in science.
Hint: They hold off on talking about their alien god until much later.
There's a link between dark personality traits and breaches of battlefield ethics.
The Black, Caspian, and Aral Seas are the last surviving fragments of a body of water that stretched from Austria to Turkmenistan.
Democratic freedom, rapturous religion, and newspapers created a hotbed for social experimentation in 19th-century America.
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We are ~99% genetically identical to chimpanzees. But there are three key traits that separate us.
JWST's revolutionary views arrive in high-resolution at infrared wavelengths. Without NASA's Spitzer first, it wouldn't have been possible.
It may be an advantage in some contexts.
The typical car is parked 95% of the time.
Using shaped ultrasound, researchers can 3D print objects in one shot.
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A productivity expert explains how you can be creative and a powerhouse of productivity.
Baby mice can regenerate damaged hair cells — and now that we know how they do it, maybe we can, too.
Research shows how "dark" Brett Martinpersonality traits affect Bitcoin enthusiasm.
Would you want to live in any of these places?
The Fermi paradox (along with the subsequent Drake equation) is so difficult that even brilliant thinkers can make little dent in it.
Intellectual humility demands that we examine our motivations for holding certain beliefs.
John Templeton Foundation
Are you a video gaming master? Put it on your résumé.
8mins
Your brain on sex, love, and rejection with biological anthropologist Helen Fisher.
Epigenetic entropy shows that you can’t fully understand cancer without mathematics.
Dark energy is one of the biggest mysteries in all the Universe. Is there some way to avoid "having to live with it?"