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A cartogram makes it easy to compare regional and national GDPs at a glance.
Despite the enormous flood of recent reports, there’s no good evidence for a lab leak. At the very end of 2019, a new disease began to emerge in humans: COVID-19. Originally […]
Asking science to determine what happened before time began is like asking, "Who were you before you were born?"
According to this research, eight percent of Americans always refuse vaccines. Why?
A well-known psychology trick called the "rubber hand illusion" could be useful for treating patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
With 5,000 square degrees of data, the Dark Energy Survey has something important to say. For as long as humans have been studying the Universe, we’ve yearned to know the answers […]
When does a healthy desire for wealth morph into greed? And how can we stop it?
Researchers were even able store and read a 767-kilobit full-color short movie file in the fabric.
Problem-solving skills are in demand. Every job posting lists them under must-have qualifications, and every job candidate claims to possess them, par excellence. Young entrepreneurs make solutions to social and […]
Information economics suggests that "no news" means somebody is hiding something. But people are bad at noticing that.
Why saying, "I don't know," might be the best thing you can do.
With radio and X-ray data combined, we’re understanding how energy flows like never before. When we look out at the Universe on the largest cosmic scales of all, gravity is the […]
Science has not yet reached a consensus on the nature of consciousness.
Engineered immune cells have prevented Type 1 diabetes in mice.
Pythagoras may have believed that the entire cosmos was constructed out of right triangles.
Is the physical universe independent from us, or is it created by our minds, as suggested by scientist Robert Lanza?
Many thousands of different genetic variants are responsible for complex behavior.
The sacrifices of early astronauts paved the way for Apollo’s successes, and so much more. In all of history, only 24 humans have ever escaped Earth’s gravity. The very first launch […]
Astronomers possibly solve the mystery of how the enormous Oort cloud, with over 100 billion comet-like objects, was formed.
This discovery could lead to better treatments for PTSD, borderline personality disorder, and epilepsy.