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One form of domestic abuse involves a parent breaking their child’s connection with the other parent.
Geopolitics is not a magic 8-ball. But making financial decisions — such as those regarding retirement — in a multipolar world without geopolitics is akin to flying blind in a storm.
Signals from the environment, such as those detected by your sense organs, have no inherent psychological meaning. Your brain creates the meaning.
John Templeton Foundation
Crystallization is an entirely random process, so scientists have developed clever ways to investigate it at a molecular level.
The high pitches from the flute and the harp would reach your ears before the notes from the tuba and the cello.
"I believe our society's gotten to the point where you can't question. You can't provoke. You just have to adhere to consensus."
Stand Together
Everything is made of matter, not antimatter, including black holes. If antimatter black holes existed, what would they do?
When faced with too many choices, many of us freeze — a phenomenon known as "analysis paralysis." Why? Isn't choice a good thing?
In 100 years, perhaps this map showing humanity clustering around the equator will seem “so 21st century.”
Do the laws of physics place a hard limit on how far technology can advance, or can we re-write those laws?
The sky is blue. The oceans are blue. While science can explain them both, the reasons for each are entirely different.
Science has come a long way since Mary Shelley penned "Frankenstein." But we still grapple with the same questions.
Remote work is here to stay. Here are a few ways to enhance remote training in a post-pandemic future.
Are physicists about to decode a mysterious field of science that could have huge implications for your health?
John Templeton Foundation
At four million solar masses, the Milky Way's supermassive black hole is quite small for a galaxy its size. Did we lose the original?