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A researcher explains a little-known niche within modern physics: animal collective behavior.
Today’s scary clowns are not a divergence from tradition, but a return to it.
After 70 years, "The Power of Positive Thinking" remains incredibly popular, even though its critics find the book to be mostly fluff.
For a time, Francis Fukuyama looked like a prophet.
For millennia, diamonds were the hardest known material, but they only rank at #7 on the current list. Can you guess which material is #1?
Society-changing ideas form through a three-stage process, argues author Michael Bhaskar.
Although many dinosaurs never left the ground, they still possessed the basic structural framework for flight.
Our Sun will continue to grow, becoming a red giant and then a planetary nebula. Here's how large it will get.
Everybody wins, everybody loses, or something in between.
If you go young, blue, and massive, you top out at 50,000 K. That’s peanuts! Surprise! The biggest, most massive stars aren’t always the hottest. Although its neighbor, Messier 42, […]
With the rise of Big Data, methods used to study the movement of stars or atoms can now reveal the movement of people. This could have important implications for cities.
Societies aren't just engines of prosperity.
There are only 3 populations of stars, but “generations” is a more complex question. When we look out at the stars in the Universe, we classify them into three different […]
Too little breathing room, tear gas, and insufficient masks are a recipe for disaster. Police are worsening all three. Across the nation and the world, people of all skin colors are […]
A generation ago, NASA launched their great observatories to explore the Universe. It’s time for round 2. Throughout the history of astronomy, every advance we’ve ever made has come about because […]
There are three factors all competing to determine the fate of the Earth, and the one that’s winning now won’t win in the end. If you could measure the average distance […]
How can we promote the creation of new neurons - and why is it so important?
Unfortunately, it's getting easier to predict what might happen to cryptocurrencies when the economy takes a nosedive.
Coke, meth, ecstasy, amphetamines: each drug has a different 'capital'
Social distancing won't be easy, but science shows us how to make it more manageable.
Two of our biggest science-fiction dreams might not remain fiction for much longer. Here’s how 21st-century science could make it real. For as long as human beings have looked up at […]
New research on killer whales may shine a light on the evolutionary power of menopause.
A second step is to determine where violence concentrates and who is most at risk.
A case for looking beyond the planetary scientist’s (or even the astronomer’s) definition. Ever since 2006, when the International Astronomical Union (IAU) officially defined the term planet — introducing the term ‘dwarf […]
Here are four separate ways you can prove it, even 50 years after-the-fact. 50 years ago, on July 20, 1969, humanity took our first footsteps on the surface of another […]
If you thought that diamonds were the hardest things of all, this will have you thinking again. Carbon is one of the most fascinating elements in all of nature, with chemical […]
The reason why is simple, and should apply to every solar system like our own. On January 3rd, 2019, Earth reached the point in its orbit where it’s at its closest […]
Now is a good time to brush up on who's on the ballot.