The Hunt For Alien Life: Meet the Aquatic Worlds of Our Solar System.
Nine other worlds in our Solar System contain water in some form. The common presence of water in our immediate cosmic neighborhood suggests there may be life elsewhere in the Solar System.
What will we do when neuroimaging allows us to reconstruct dreams and memories?
Money, murder, and sadomasochism: A journey into the hidden world of Silicon Beach and the Los Angeles tech world.
MailChimp and the Un-Silicon Valley Way to Make It as a Start-Up.
No venture capital, no Bay Area presence, no crazy burn rate: MailChimp’s founders built the company slowly by anticipating customers’ needs and following their instincts.
You Might Have Earned It, But Don't Forget That Your Wealth Came from Society.
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What Chinese corner-cutting reveals about modernity.
Your balcony fell off? Chabuduo. Vaccines are overheated? Chabuduo.
Dark matter faces its biggest challenge of all.
A correlation between normal matter and the observed rotation suggests that maybe dark matter isn’t a certainty, after all.
Nothing in the standard cosmological model predicts this, and it is almost impossible to imagine how that model could be modified to explain it, without discarding the dark matter hypothesis completely.
The Hive is the New Network.
Even though some social networks have grown to include billions of people, the ramp up in communication hasn’t increased proportionally. Even as you add friends or follow users, you can only talk to so many. Facebook users with over 500 friends only actively communicate with between 10 to 20 people. Similarly, Twitter users who have follower counts of over 1,000 share strong ties with fewer than 50 of their followers.
Liquid assets: how the business of bottled water went mad.
How did a substance that falls from the air, springs from the earth and comes out of your tap become a hyperactive multibillion-dollar business?
A bot crawled thousands of studies looking for simple math errors. The results are concerning.
Statcheck is a program that automatically detects errors in psychology papers.