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Alexandre Dumas' famous anecdote about Fake News in the 1800s has a surprising twist.
If we waited long enough, would even protons themselves decay? There are certain things in the Universe that, if you leave them alone for long enough, they’ll eventually decay away. […]
Would you ever have sex with a robot?
This space expansionist ideology marked the beginning of what Arendt called "earth alienation."
How Nobel Prize winner physicist Lev Landau ranked the best physics minds of his generation.
Americans lose an estimated 321 million work days every year due to anxiety and depression.
Telescopes from the ground are bigger, but have to fight the atmosphere. Here’s how to win. In astronomy, seeing farther and fainter than ever before requires three simultaneous approaches. First light, […]
Controversial physics theory says reality around us behaves like a computer neural network.
43% of people think they can get a sense of someone's personality by their picture.
17th-century outbreaks of plague in Italy reveal both tensions between religious and public health authorities.
New experiments find weird quantum activity in supercold gas.
They came from different places and with different ideas, which still resonate today.
Researchers say that moral self-licensing occurs "because good deeds make people feel secure in their moral self-regard."
Money can't buy happiness, but try being hopeful and broke at the same time.
The 20th century was marked by waves of pro-democracy revolutions. Now, the future of democracy looks uncertain.
Yet 80 percent of respondents want to reduce their risk of dementia.
The U.S., China, and Russia are in a "vaccine race" that treats a global challenge like a winner-take-all game.
A far-ranging conversation about telescopes, what they do, and who they impact. When most of us think of astronomy, we think about two types of scientists: the observers who point their […]
Is the “big freeze” our inevitable fate, or can dark energy save us? When we look out at the Universe today, we see sources of light practically everywhere we look. In […]
Positive, romantic thoughts could produce positive, romantic outcomes while dating.