The Fermi paradox asks us where all the aliens are if the cosmos should be filled with them. The Dark Forest theory says we should pray we never find them. | Continue reading
About a quarter of victims' lost time was avoidable | Continue reading
A new study flies in the face of anecdotal evidence and raises questions about how we read data. | Continue reading
Decades of studies have shown parents to be less happy than their childless peers. But are the kids to blame? | Continue reading
Research has shown that men today have less testosterone than they used to. What's happening? | Continue reading
Technology proves what women know and men may not want to hear | Continue reading
There might be hope for our oceans, thanks to one clumsy moment in a coral tank. | Continue reading
We have to practice doing nothing more often. | Continue reading
Peter Thiel delivers the keynote address at the 2012 Nantucket Project, arguing that the U.S, is resting on its laurels, and no longer innovating. | Continue reading
A.I. makes a lot of mistakes. | Continue reading
This study is radically changing how we view the process of evolution. | Continue reading
Two massive clouds of dust in orbit around the Earth have been discussed for years and finally proven to exist. | Continue reading
Spinal implants deliver intermittent bursts to stimulate movement. | Continue reading
Famous physicists like Richard Feynman think 137 holds the answers to the Universe. | Continue reading
A neuroscientist argues that Da Vicni shared a disorder with Picasso and Rembrandt. | Continue reading
A new study delivers the dark financial reality of cancer. | Continue reading
Doctors in Shetland can now prescribe a walk in natureIt's believed to be the first program of its kind in the U.K.The health benefits of engaging with nature are numerous. | Continue reading
Our experience of time may be blinding us to its true nature, say scientists. | Continue reading
Most basic form of data, meet most basic form of matter. | Continue reading
Ketosis is known to work wonders in terms of short-term weight loss. But what about the diet’s effects over the long term? | Continue reading
America's fear of an Anglo-Japanese alliance led Canada to worry about a U.S. attack - and in the end, devise a scheme for a 'pre-emptive invasion' of its southern neighbour | Continue reading
Mind-boggling as it is, some of the world's roundest countries are also some of the most rectangular ones. | Continue reading
A new study used massive amounts of data from an online dating service to explore what makes someone desirable, and how people go about attracting partners online. | Continue reading
An increasingly likely catastrophe can cause major disruptions in space flight and our daily lives. | Continue reading
Richard Feynman once asked a silly question. Two MIT students just answered it. | Continue reading
An MIT model predicted when and how human civilization would end. Hint: it's soon. | Continue reading
The pool of things that "AI Can't Do" appears to be steadily shrinking. | Continue reading
By 2020, China plans to assign each of its 1.4 billion citizens a “social credit score” that could determine what certain people are allowed to do. | Continue reading
It can be hard to understand why a person would be an atheist. Bertrand Russell is here to help. | Continue reading
A chilling interview given by a KGB defector in 1984 describes America of today and outlines four stages of mass brainwashing used by the KGB. | Continue reading
MeerKAT is producing brilliant images of the super massive black hole that is at our galaxy’s center. | Continue reading
Researchers at Princeton engineer a new type of diamond with silicon and boron that solves past issues with quantum data storage and retrieval. | Continue reading
There appears to be a bizarre stigma around people – especially women – who voluntarily decide not to procreate. | Continue reading
Younger siblings generally have a lower IQ than their older brothers and sisters, according to three large national surveys from the US, UK, and Germany. | Continue reading
Aurora 21 will help the US keep pace among the other nations who own the fastest supercomputers. Scientists plan on using it to map the connectome of the human brain. | Continue reading
A review of 33 trials confirms that loading your body does your brain good. | Continue reading
America can learn a lot from tribal dynamics. Sebastian Junger says if we wish to be united, we can start by looking at US platoons serving overseas. | Continue reading
Today, there is a crisis of trust in science. Many people – including politicians and, yes, even presidents – publicly express doubts about the validity of scientific findings. Meanwhile, scientific institutions and journals express their concerns about the public’s increasing di … | Continue reading
Silicon Valley might just be missing the most important aspect of being human: the ability to feel. | Continue reading
By training algorithms on human data, they learn our biases. | Continue reading