In Germany and France, having an Anglo-Saxon first name is a good predictor of extreme voting behavior.
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According to a story doing the rounds on social media, organ transplant patients can take on the personalities of their donors. Don't believe the hype.
The interdisciplinary approach both to research and learning is starting to gain favor again because small and nimble research labs are proving that they have a method for speeding the pace and reducing the cost of discovery.
Small and nimble research labs are proving that they have a method for speeding the pace and reducing the cost of discovery.
What if you could bottle President Obama's famous cool, Lady Gaga's style and Michael Phelps's athleticism? An experimental philosopher is attempting to do just that. Sort of.
A new venture aims to foster stability in war-torn regions through an act of creative destruction: acquiring AK-47s and transforming them into rare jewelry, watches and accessories.
A new venture aims to foster stability in war-torn regions through an act of creative destruction: acquiring AK-47s and transforming them into rare jewelry, watches and accessories.
The simulation gave researchers some of the first concrete data linking climate change to human evolution and speciation.
Admit it: you have no idea why a group of crows is called a murder. Here's why.
Research shows that psilocybin leads people away from materialism and toward transcendentalism. Apparently, mushrooms teach metaphysics.
Though gloomy and dense, Russian literature is hauntingly beautiful, offering a relentlessly persistent inquiry into the human experience.
If the laws of physics are symmetrical as we think they are, then the Big Bang should have created matter and antimatter in the same amount.
They say that seein’ is believin’. But everything we see has to have a scientific explanation. When you look at the Sun on a day where there’s a clear sky, […]
A DNA study looks for the home of the earliest modern humans.
A team of Japanese researchers comes across a remarkably simple trick.
Have sexual interludes obscured the path to love?
Jewish people living in nearly all European countries report that anti-Semitism has grown in recent years.
A new study compares the psychedelic DMT with near-death experiences.
Marketers have long used envy as a tactic to sell products, but a new study suggests that it only works on people with a high sense of self-esteem.
Boaty McBoatface could have been a billion-dollar brand that re-invigorated science education, but now its epic failure is a lesson for the rest of us.
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Several interpretations of the Constitution say that Trump has already broken the law by threatening free speech concerning the NFL. When can we start impeachment proceedings?
If people who experience near-death experiences have less fear of death, could an out-of-body experience through virtual simulation lead to the same result?
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They move at the speed of light, but not even light can escape. So how do gravitational waves? “I think there are a number of experiments that are thinking about […]
Among many others, Britain's new Foreign Secretary has managed to offend the previous, current and future presidents of the U.S.
If you’re a cartography nerd, you’re probably also a bit of an election geek. Because nothing beats election night on TV. Exit polls, voting patterns and the results of previous […]
When you have a very rigid society without social mobility the underachieving kids of overachieving parents get a privileged run and get helped into colleges they shouldn’t really be getting into.
The idea of forgery resonates more than ever today in a culture in which "the open exchange of ideas has been rebranded as piracy."