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“Like real dreams, it does not explain, does not complete its sequences," film critic Roger Ebert once wrote about "Mulholland Drive."
Two very different ideas, wormholes and quantum entanglement, might be fundamentally related. What would "ER = EPR" mean for our Universe?
Some scientists think brain organoids could develop a form of consciousness. Others say that's science fiction.
The 1,200-year-old "Book of Ingenious Devices" contains designs for futuristic inventions like gas masks, water fountains, and digging machines.
Even with quantum teleportation and the existence of entangled quantum states, faster-than-light communication still remains impossible.
Jules Verne wrote about gasoline-powered vehicles, weapons of mass destruction, and global warming more than a century ago.
Left to their own devices, yeast cells will consume all available resources and poison themselves to death. Is humanity smarter than that?
For Nietzsche, a great work of art can either veil the horror of reality or – better yet – help us face it.
Ev Fedorenko’s Interesting Brains Project highlights the human brain’s remarkable capacity to adapt, reorganize in the face of early damage.
This is your brain on work.
The zero-point energy of empty space is not zero. Even with all the physics we know, we have no idea how to calculate what it ought to be.