White lies, in fact, are like a grease that makes society run smoothly.
We can now give you a biological reason why cramming doesn’t work, says Dr. Tully. The best way to prepare for a final exam is to mentally review the material periodically during the day, until the ma...
This world may be a phantasm and existence may be merely a dream, but this dream or phantasm to me is real enough if using reason well we are never deceived by it.
This solves a long-standing mystery in cosmology. Our bodies are made of heavy elements beyond iron, but our sun is not hot enough to forge them. If the earth and the atoms of our bodies were original...
There is so much noise on the Internet, with would-be prophets daily haranguing their audience and megalomaniacs trying to push bizarre ideas, that eventually people will cherish a new commodity: wisd...
The results of these and other studies were eye-opening. The children who exhibited delayed gratification scored higher on almost every measure of success in life: higher-paying jobs, lower rates of d...
The quantum theory is based on the idea that there is a probability that all possible events, no matter how fantastic or silly, might occur.
The point is: whenever there is a conflict between modern technology and the desires of our primitive ancestors, these primitive desires win each time. That’s the Cave Man Principle.
The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits. —G. K. Chesterson W
The olfactory sensors of dogs, he said, had evolved over millions of years to be able to detect a handful of molecules, and that kind of sensitivity is extremely difficult to match, even with our most...
The brain weighs only three pounds, yet it is the most complex object in the solar system.
Tachyons travel faster than light and have imaginary mass; it’s not clear if they fall up or down under gravity. They, too, have not been found in the laboratory.)
Sin un científico no hay futuro. Los guapos y atractivos personajes pueden ganarse la admiración de la sociedad, pero todas las invenciones maravillosas relacionadas con el futuro son consecuencia del...
Por una parte, un replicante podría proporcionarnos la utopía que previeron los visionarios del siglo XIX. Los experimentos utópicos anteriores fracasaron a causa de la escasez, la cual conduce a las...
Podría haber seguido filtrando secretos indefinidamente, incluso hasta hoy, alterando el curso de la guerra fría y de la historia mundial, pero fue descubierto accidentalmente cuando un ingeniero brit...
Physicists believe that at the instant of the Big Bang, the universe was in perfect symmetry and there was an equal amount of matter and antimatter. If so, the annihilation between the two would have...
Perhaps various branches of genetically enhanced humans will populate different parts of the solar system and eventually diverge into separate species. And one can imagine that rivalries and even warf...
Otro problema surge cuando interviene el gobierno. John Perry Barlow, poeta y letrista de Grateful Dead, afirma: «Pedirle al gobierno que proteja nuestra privacidad es como pedirle a un voyeur que nos...
Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. —M. C. ESCHER
Liquid water is the universal solvent, the mixing bowl where the first DNA probably got off the ground. If liquid-water oceans are found on these planets, it could alter our understanding of life in t...