Using data collected from ancient civilizations across the world, researchers identified the most significant factors in human development. War came out on top.
Sweet, bitter, salty, sour. These are the four basic tastes we were taught in grade school. But there is a fifth: umami. And it’s everywhere.
More than 150 companies are developing flying cars. Here’s why they’re aren’t yet off the ground and darting across city skies.
the human brain remains highly responsive to sound during sleep, but it does not receive feedback from higher order areas — sort of like an orchestra with “the conductor missing.”
The world is aging, and with age comes vision decline. New research may have found how to improve eyesight in an accessible way.
More humans are being born with a third arm artery, an example of microevolution happening right before our eyes.
Rituals come as much from religion as they do from the way Earth spins around the Sun.
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Even though the leftover glow from the Big Bang creates a bath of radiation at only 2.725 K, some places in the Universe get even colder.
From Amazon to the US Army, everybody wants one (or 150).
We live in a four-dimensional Universe, where matter and energy curve the fabric of spacetime. But time sure is different from space!
NicoBoard is an app that helps parents make sense of a frightening time.
Where do you place precious brain resources?
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There’s a speed limit to the Universe: the speed of light in a vacuum. Want to beat the speed of light? Try going through a medium!
Deliveries of the $250k Lightyear 0 will start in November 2022.
Even at its faintest, Venus always outshines every other star and planet that’s visible from Earth, and then some!
Cement production currently accounts for 8% of global carbon emissions.
People in the East and West really do think differently, especially when it comes to self-identity. Depending where you live, either associative or distinctive thinking will shape your sense of self.
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Take a peek at the pre-release images used to calibrate and commission JWST’s coldest instrument, now ready for full science operations.
A team of scientists hopes deep-earth lithium could sustain America’s vast demand for batteries. But extracting it won’t be easy.
The length of a day oscillates slightly every six years. This was a surprising discovery made last decade. We might now know why.
Deep learning AI has accurately created color images from night vision images.
Scientists have found three new examples of a very exotic form of matter made of quarks. They can yield insights into the early Universe.
The psychology of alien contact largely revolves around the concept of “otherness.” We need to learn to be comfortable around strange things.
In the philosophy of Star Wars, the Sith are evil because they surrender to passion. But is a life of total rationality a “good” life?
Is “The Garden of Earthly Delights” by Hieronymus Bosch a condemnation of sin or a celebration of hedonism? Art historians still aren’t sure.
Mammals have a history stretching back 325 million years. To study that ancient history is to know our own origins.
It started with a bang, but won’t end with one. Instead, it will “rage against the dying of the light” like nothing you’ve ever imagined.
“Politics is weird. It’s the only business in the world in which you take a really, really important position, and you give it to someone with no qualifications.” —Tony Blair
Like humans, stars die. The James Webb Space Telescope’s early images already give us a lot of information about how this happens.