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Science doesn't fit neatly into ideology.
John Templeton Foundation
In all of science, no figures have changed the world more than Einstein and Newton. Will anyone ever be as revolutionary again?
For centuries, men prevented women from writing music. These classical composers broke with social norms and made their mark on history.
What if intelligence can thrive without consciousness?
Sometimes breaking a rule is the ethical thing to do.
Detective fiction reveals how a particular society or time period looks at crime and criminal justice.
The strangest thing about trying to predict the future is that our only clues lie in the past.
The Standard Model of elementary particles has three nearly identical copies of particles: generations. And nobody knows why.
One theory for catatonia is that it is similar to an animal's “death feint.”
The base rate fallacy may help to explain low reproducibility in various fields of science.
How can the law keep up with new genetic technology?
The spooky world of quantum mechanics might reach out and touch you — by mutating your DNA. Welcome to the weird world of quantum biology.
The chemistry of cooking over an open flame.
Robinson v. California helped to established a rehabilitative ideal: addiction should be dealt with as a therapeutic matter.
There is nothing more important to science than its ability to prove ideas wrong.
Humans who've lived through the same events often remember them differently. Could quantum physics be responsible?
It's time to put on your listening hat.
Suppose that fetuses are persons. Since pregnant people are too, how should conflicts between them be settled?
According to renowned physicist Christophe Galfard, physics can’t explain our universe - yet.
John Templeton Foundation
The observable Universe is 92 billion light-years in diameter. These pictures put just how large that is in perspective.
Technologically, the answer is definitely no. But that doesn't mean CGI is always used to good effect.
Regardless of political ideology, one of the few things that many people seem to have in common is a moral hypocrisy that arises from a fundamental lack of self-reflection.
Only 1% of corn grown is the U.S. is the type that people eat.
Are dreams, hallucinations, and near death experiences all connected?
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Practice doesn’t actually make perfect. Here’s the willpower equation necessary for elite athletes and musicians.
John Templeton Foundation
We all know assholes. Perhaps, you are one. Now, psychologists are trying to answer one of life's biggest mysteries: What, exactly, makes someone an asshole?
