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A new study reveals the positive effect being vegetarian can have on the production of greenhouse gases.
Space is getting bigger, but atoms, humans, Earth and our Milky Way stay the same size. How is this possible? “The Universe is expanding the way your mind is expanding. […]
Evolution exists and exerts itself in a different way than gravity does... because natural selection is an "algorithmic force."
Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Comedy writer and producer Scott Aukerman on Michael Bolton, transgression in comedy, and cultural turmoil in the USA.
Freeze it, boil it, or expose it to radiation. The water bear shrugs it off. Now we know why.
Bill Nye, CEO of The Planetary Society, offers an important 5-point plan for President Trump on space exploration and NASA's budget.
This AI hates racism, retorts wittily when sexually harassed, dreams of being superintelligent, and finds Siri's conversational skills to be decidedly below her own.
New York has the same GDP as Canada, Los Angeles makes as much money in a year as Australia
Your theory predicts something novel? How nice. But no one will pay you any mind unless you test it. “He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards […]
Men have become much more aggressive with women in their negotiation style since Donald Trump became president, according to a new Game Theory based economics study. More aggressive tactics by men are leading to reduced mutual benefits and a destruction of value in negotiations.
Percy Shelley's 1811 essay, "The Necessity of Atheism," still speaks volumes today.
A new study suggests always-improving video games are keeping young men without college educations unemployed or out of the workforce entirely.
The European Geosciences Union predicts that over 70% of glacier volume in the Everest region could be lost by 2100. One man has engineered a solution so that life in these regions can go on.
Have you heard that life is unlikely around low-mass, red dwarf stars? It might be time to rethink that flawed conclusion. “Laws of nature mixed with evolutionary/historical contingencies allow for […]
Don't work with children or animals? Sir David Attenborough laughs in the face of danger.
Why are we so hung up on Pluto's planetary status? Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson urges us to get over it already!
The study might also help us to identify the prodigy gene, should it exist.
Stand up comedians are twice as likely to die younger than dramatic actors. And according to at least one published medical study, the funnier you are the earlier you could die young.
New research shows that more Americans are giving up on weight loss. How can we change this trend?
Theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss explains why nothing is really something.