Queen Calafia seems like she could have sprung from the pages of a modern fantasy novel.
“Like real dreams, it does not explain, does not complete its sequences,” film critic Roger Ebert once wrote about “Mulholland Drive.”
Two very different ideas, wormholes and quantum entanglement, might be fundamentally related. What would “ER = EPR” mean for our Universe?
About 1 in 5 adults now say they have no religious affiliation, up from 1 in 50 in 1960.
Some scientists think brain organoids could develop a form of consciousness. Others say that’s science fiction.
The secret may lie in an old idiom: “Sleep on it.”
The 1,200-year-old “Book of Ingenious Devices” contains designs for futuristic inventions like gas masks, water fountains, and digging machines.
Even with quantum teleportation and the existence of entangled quantum states, faster-than-light communication still remains impossible.
Not even Einstein immediately knew the power of the equations he gave us.
Four key components to guide the creation of emotional intelligence training for leaders.
Within the “Dark Triad” of personality traits, narcissism exists on a confidence spectrum.
Jules Verne wrote about gasoline-powered vehicles, weapons of mass destruction, and global warming more than a century ago.
What if we could harvest energy from human heat, sweat, or vibrations?
Left to their own devices, yeast cells will consume all available resources and poison themselves to death. Is humanity smarter than that?
For Nietzsche, a great work of art can either veil the horror of reality or – better yet – help us face it.
The state of global democracy is relatively strong — but there are clear signs of recent erosion.
Ev Fedorenko’s Interesting Brains Project highlights the human brain’s remarkable capacity to adapt, reorganize in the face of early damage.
This is your brain on work.
The zero-point energy of empty space is not zero. Even with all the physics we know, we have no idea how to calculate what it ought to be.
“Of course, the spleen is the biggest organ in the body.”
Take a trip through these master-crafted fantasy societies and ask yourself: Could I actually live there?
“Painfully forced” is how one contemporary critic described Fitzgerald’s writing style.
3D-printing robots are being used to build a 100-home housing development in the US state of Texas.
Extreme home environments — either very supportive or harshly negligent — tend to produce more sensitive kids.
What kind of object will you form? What will its fate be? How long will a star live? Almost everything is determined by mass alone.
The Apple Watch could soon take the pain out of monitoring blood sugar levels.
Archaeologists turn to other scientific fields to fill in the picture of how victims lived and why they died.
An innovation’s value is found between the technophile’s promises and the Luddite’s doomsday scenarios.