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And it isn’t Einstein’s equations… but it does come from them! There are some incredibly big questions that humanity has been asking about the Universe since we first began looking upwards: […]
The solar neighborhood is so different than people imagine. But for the first time, we know what it’s like. When you look up at the stars in the night sky, they […]
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Maternal leave is a big deal. Increasingly, studies are finding that paternal leave is equally important.
What do hockey, movies, and cardboard boxes have in common? They're incredibly interesting, and featured in our weekly random fact roundup.
Hunting trophies, by the thousands, lined the walls of his palaces and lodges.
Some of us can adjust our moods by listening to certain types of music we know will affect us. This survey looks at the music Americans turn to for mood modification.
NASA just cancelled its only lunar rover in development, despite President Donald Trump's orders to expand lunar expeditions.
How good urban design can help us become better people.
Secular Web compiles a number of publications in atheism, nontheism, and science over the last few centuries.
Two tech titans can't agree on the one thing that could come to define our times: A.I. What do they have to say on the matter?
New research on the hypothalamus shows that body heat matters.
A new Pew Research study shows how widely varied belief in what God, or a higher power, actually is.
Thought experiment: What if you graft Israel's borders onto the San Francisco Bay Area?
Whatever you do, don’t try to wash it away with water. Every few months, a volcanic eruption occurs on Earth, with lava flows and enormous plumes of volcanic ash. In 2015, […]
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Why have some conspiracy theories been pushed back into the public? Because when you try to force them out of the mainstream, they'll find a wider audience on the fringes.
Fasting is trending, yet it's also been prescribed for thousands of years. Does the science on the Fasting Mimicking Diet (FMD) hold up?
The part of your brain responsible for ASMR catalogs music, and appears to be a stronghold against Alzheimer's and dementia.
Prince William and Kate Middleton have welcomed their third child to the royal family. Find out where the new royal baby falls in the line of succession to the throne.
Using a machine-learning system known as a deep neural network, MIT researchers have created the first model that can identify a musical genre just like a human would.
The answer can give us an indication of where our universe is headed and how it might end.