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Some scientists feel that the attacks on U.S. embassy workers in Cuba and China were carried out by secret microwave weapons. Others think that’s just silly.
Billions of years ago, the ever-increasing entropy must've been much lower: the past hypothesis. Here's how cosmic inflation solves it.
Our inaugural special issue is focused on progress — the search for, the study of, and the project towards a better world.
If our goal is to effect the greatest possible progress, what would it look like to approach this holistically? What might need to dispositionaly in how we approach solving our most important problems—at an individual level, a community level, or at a civilizational or global one? We asked our experts to think big picture about how what new thinking would be required to create a larger pro-progress framework.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Swiss Enlightenment philosopher who praised a simple life and inspired the worst of the French Revolution.
There are dozens of instructional design models, but most learning designers rely on a select few. Here are four of the most common.
Mutations that confer malaria resistance occur more frequently in people who live in regions where the disease is endemic.
Discussions of human evolution are usually backward looking, as if the greatest triumphs and challenges were in the distant past.
If you want to understand what the Universe is, how it began, evolved, and will eventually end, astrophysics is the only way to go.
On long-haul flights, some airlines show shipwrecks on their in-flight maps. The aim is to entertain; the result is often to horrify.
Historians know how military technologies evolved, but the reasons why remain poorly understood.
A recent study sheds light on the evolutionary history of rhinoceroses and their remarkably low levels of genetic diversity.
Modern science progresses with an intensity and even irrationality that Aristotle could not fathom.
Two new studies examine ways we could engineer human wormhole travel.
‘Reductio ad absurdum’ won’t help you in an absurd Universe. Throughout history, there have been two main ways humanity has attempted to gain knowledge about the world: top-down, where we […]
Even tyrants and despots offer wisdom worth heeding.
You’re gonna die, cloud! All stars, even our Sun, will someday eventually die. After burning on the main sequence for billions of years, the Sun will expand into a red giant, […]
Can passenger airships make a triumphantly 'green' comeback?
We’re Earth’s first intelligent, technologically advanced civilization. But maybe not the last. For most of our planet’s history, life in some form has existed on our world. Planet Earth formed some […]
Maps show the oldest company in (nearly) every country – and a few interesting corporate trends.
A new study finds surprising evidence of the self-evolution of urban foxes.
Trump is #45 but Pence is #48 – and other strange consequences of the curious office of vice president.
The current focus on the Chinese and Jews is nothing new.
These films offer viewers a glimpse into the world as it is could be.
The move reflects a broader nationwide effort to lower prices of the life-saving drug.
He lost his passion for poetry and other aesthetic, spiritual interests.
"It is almost impossible to put into words the difference that Alan Turing made to society."
There are a few different theories out there, but the parieto-frontal integration theory, or P-FIT, appears to give us the best model of the neuroscience of intelligence.