It is time to give the Russian cosmologist the credit he deserves.
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You don't need to completely automate a job to fundamentally change it.
The negative associations of introversion help to explain why loneliness now carries such social stigma.
The Russian-built FEDOR was launched on a mission to help ISS astronauts.
Dark matter, dark energy, inflation and the Big Bang are real, and the alternatives all fail spectacularly. If you keep up with the latest science news, you’re probably familiar with […]
With huge suites of data, we can extract plenty of signals where we know to look for them. Everything else? That’s where AI comes in. At the dawn of the 20th […]
20 years before Sally Ride, Valentina Tereshkova set the bar. She’s still amazing after more than 50 years. “A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop […]
NASA finds 50,000 year-old bacteria alive inside gigantic crystals in a Mexican mine.
Our increased dependency on antibiotics creates more resistant bacteria. How will we outwit these bad actors?
They may look odd, but it’s all part of Google’s plan to solve a huge issue in machine learning: recognizing objects in images.
What is this thing called love? I took my own stab at understanding the neurobiological circuits underlying love and sex with my own book, DIRTY MINDS: HOW OUR BRAINS INFLUENCE […]
In the avalanche of analysis and speculation about Chief Justice Roberts’ stunning decision to side with the Supreme Court’s liberal wing to uphold Obama’s healthcare law, one strain paints Roberts […]
In 2020, scientists took more than a kilo of moon rock and soil back to Earth for testing.
The most important events in history have nothing to do with politics or wars.
We confidently state that the Universe is known to be 13.8 billion years old, with an uncertainty of just 1%. Here's how we know.
We know the Universe is expanding, but scientists don't agree on the rate. This is a legitimate problem.
Is history decided by discernible laws or does it unfold based on random, unpredictable occurrences?
From Aristotle's lazy cosmology to Immanuel Kant's "scientific" racism, great minds are not immune to very bad ideas.
Instead of worshipping Yahweh, the devotees were perhaps dedicated to Mars and Jupiter.
This year’s Nobel Peace Prize ceremony sends yet another strong message to Russian president Vladimir Putin.
"Salvator Mundi" sold for a record-breaking $450 million in 2017, but is it really as valuable as people were led to believe?
In the 20th century, many options abounded as to our cosmic origins. Today, only the Big Bang survives, thanks to this critical evidence.
Instead of liberation, the sexual revolution has led some people, particularly men, to be addicted to porn.
The Industrial Revolution changed music forever, thanks to a combination of technological advances and clever entrepreneurs.
Each of us carries our own version of the Multiverse in our heads.
The Russian mindset is characterized by cynicism and distrust.
Before anesthetics, some patients would die of the pain on the operating table.
Magnetic monopoles began as a mere theoretical curiosity. They might hold the key to understanding so much more.
Some artifacts drown in shipwrecks, others are taken by the tide. Many others will vanish as a result of climate change and rising sea levels.