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Dark Matter Theories Challenged By Satellite Galaxy Discovery
A sprawling collection of galaxies and star clusters surrounding our own Milky Way is challenging long-standing theories on the...
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The Limits of Using Science to Explain Morality
Grand theories of social evolution have, in the past, proved to be useless as guides to events, but that...
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Solar Storms Present a Growing Threat
Geomagnetic storms generated by the interaction between the electrically charged solar particles and the earth’s own magnetic field could...
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Formula Follows the Evolution of Writing Styles
How does literary style evolve? Surprisingly, clues lie in words with seemingly little meaning, such as “to” and “that”....
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Quantum Entanglement Can Reach Into the Past
Spooky quantum entanglement just got spookier. Entanglement is a weird state where two particles remain intimately connected, even when...
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Study Shows Humans Are Still Evolving
Darwinian survival-of-the-fittest laws continue to shape human evolution in the modern age, research has shown.
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Matters of the Brain: Why Men and Women Are So Different
A prevalent understanding, particularly in the 1980s, was that boys and girls are born cognitively the same. It was...
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Culture, Not Biology, Shapes Language
From Barbara King at NPR’s 13:7, a blog set at the intersection of science and culture: There’s no language gene. There’s...
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‘Supersizing’ the College Classroom: 2,670 Students Share One Teacher
Conventional wisdom deems smaller classes superior. John Boyer a professor at Virginia Tech and a self-described “Podunk instructor,” calls...
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Odds of Finding Alien Life Boosted By Billions of Habitable Worlds
A new estimate of the number of habitable planets orbiting the most common type of stars in our galaxy...