Our ability to find and share information today is potentially limitless. But how did we get here? From cave paintings to the iPad—how does human innovation bring us here?
Who is more likely to lie, cheat, and steal—the poor person or the rich one? Research suggests as people climb the social ladder, their compassionate feelings towards other people decline. Why would wealth and status decrease our feelings of compassion for others? After all, it seems more likely that having few resources would lead to…
Biological diversity—something that’s now imperiled by human appetites—may be a sustaining, stabilizing force on planetary scales, and its disruption self-perpetuating. “Earlier interpretations have looked at the Permian-Triassic extinction as purely the result of external physical processes,” said paleobiologist Jessica Whiteside of Brown University. “But low diversity itself can be a feedback.” Author Metanexus Editors
A spectacular new picture from the Hubble Space Telescope has captured a cosmic fireworks display in deep space: a geyser of gas fired off from a baby star. The celestial display is the result of Herbig-Haro 110, a gas jet erupting from a distant star and bouncing off of a nearby dust cloud. NASA scientists…
Once again quantum physics gives us philosophical implications: physicists showed how a small amount of randomness can be amplified without limit. Classical physics is deterministic: for example, we can determine the position and velocity of a particle at any time in the future. Quantum theory, on the other hand, states that there exist processes which…
For Whom Is College Being Reinvented?
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Scientists hope that by plotting out the distribution of dark matter throughout space, they will come closer to understanding what it is. “By analyzing light from the distant universe, we can learn about what it has travelled through on its journey to reach us,” Catherine Heymans of the University of Edinburgh’s School of Physics and…