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The role of the Devil’s advocate was to argue against the beatification of mystics. Contrary to popular belief, they did not wear Prada.
The James Webb Space Telescope has chosen 5 targets for its first science release. Here's what we know on the eve of JWST's big reveal!
Really simple interventions can greatly reduce indoor temperatures during the summer, particularly in places like the Pacific Northwest.
Scuba divers often appear to be swimming through a calm and muffled universe. This couldn't be farther from the truth.
A new finding that unconsciously processed images are distributed to higher-order brain networks requires the revision of a popular theory of consciousness.
It is all too easy for humans to fall into the cognitive trap of thinking that an entity that can use language fluently is sentient or intelligent.
Long before tobacco arrived from the Americas, ancient civilizations in the Old World were getting high off hemp smoke and opium.
One might think that people who started poor and became rich might be more sensitive to the plights of the poor. Not so, suggests a new study.
It might seem like science and faith are at war, but the two have a historical synergy that extends back in time for centuries.
John Templeton Foundation
New research finds that dinosaurs were already adapted to living in cold climates before the end-Triassic mass extinction. But how?
The neutrino is the most ghostly, rarely-interacting particle in all the Standard Model. How well can we truly make "beams" out of them?
A marine scientist explains the threat of the Loop Current, a 800-pound gorilla of Gulf hurricane risks.
Genetic analysis reveals that a specimen collected in 2019 is the same subspecies as one caught more than a century earlier.
Science and the sacred both allow us to retain our sense of wonder, even as disaster seems to swirl around us.