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Emotion has an impact on the decision-making process.

One of the stranger philosophies currently enjoying a renewal of interest is also that of your favorite group of magical space wizard monks. 

Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah Tower is poised to become the world’s tallest building. What’s behind the century-plus drive to build ever taller skyscrapers?

The acceptance of death is deeply embedded in our culture; it’s time to overthrow that idea.

What if you are the only person in the world who can think?

English is a dynamic language, and this summer’s new additions to dictionary.com tell us a lot about how we’re living.

The unique light signatures of nautical beacons translate into hypnotic cartography.

One image can give over 100 times the data we now get from Hubble. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990, revealed the previously unseen Universe. The most distant galaxy ever […]

For many, 2020 will not be remembered as a “best of” much. We don’t need to repeat the reasons here; it’s sufficient to point out that a 100-year pandemic was […]

‘Kanal Istanbul’ would create a second Bosporus – and immortalize its creator.

An open letter predicts that a massive wall of rock is about to plunge into Barry Arm Fjord in Alaska.

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 […]

Spoiler: Microbiomes in space!

Cybercriminals have a wide variety of motivations for their attacks, and, correspondingly, there are a wide variety of targets. While few of us will find ourselves in positions where we […]

If an AT-AT walker (or something even larger) wanted to walk across a frozen lake, how thick would the ice have to be? Each winter, one of the most spectacular phenomena […]

“We seem to be racing toward a new configuration of government and industry without having fully thought through all of the implications,” Steve Aftergood, director of the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists, told MIT Technology Review.

French newspapers report that the trial hasn’t lived up to expectations.

Nothing can go faster than the speed of light in a vacuum. But particles in our Universe can’t even go that fast. When it comes to speed limits, the ultimate one […]

In the 1990s, the two scientists made key discoveries that led to the development of promising new cancer-fighting immunotherapy drugs.

Why is manipulating people morally wrong but influencing them is not? Here’s the fundamental distinction between manipulation and non-manipulative influence.

Is Google’s moral compass broken?

In his latest book, ‘When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing’, Daniel Pink makes a convincing case for more naps.

And thanks to a new technique and set of observations, we think we know exactly where to find them. At the center of practically every galaxy is a supermassive black hole, […]

The findings could help medical professionals better determine the official time of brain death, and might have implications on the protocols for organ donation.

With his 51st Oscar nomination for Star Wars: The Last Jedi, composer John Williams has mastered the craft of the film score. 

Research from my PrejudiceLab at Goldsmiths, University of London shows that people who score high on the collective narcissism scale are particularly sensitive to even the smallest offences to their group’s image.

Everybody seems to be making money on bitcoin and other cryptocurrency, but not many people grasp how the underlying technology works. Bitcoin is now traded on the exchanges for futures contracts. Is this problematic for amateur day traders that may not understand how bitcoin works?

Fancy a game of Japanese chess?

Female political aides in the White House have banded together and are using a combo-technique of amplification and ‘shine theory’ to make sure their voices are counted.   

Police use the same mechanism to make split-second life-or-death decisions that we do. But that mechanism is kind of a racist idiot.