8. Culture & Curiosity!

Pope Francis left for Rome on Sunday at the end of a trip to South America during which he censured capitalism, championed the rights of the poor, warned of irreversible damage to the planet and urged youths to "make a mess".

I tell you, the Careers section of Science magazine is a perpetual source of pain and aggravation. In the latest, Eleftherios Diamandis explains exactly what you need to do to be a success in scien…

Maria Konnikova writes about recent research on why our brains and bodies need sleep.

Einstein's theory of relativity has an intimidating reputation, but the whole theory can be traced back to a single principle that's simple enough to fit on a bumper sticker: The laws of physics do not depend on how you're moving.

Quantum theorist Christopher Fuchs explains how to solve the paradoxes of quantum mechanics.

Whether it is an entire history (i.e. Chinese history, Italian history) or a certain timeframe from a country's history (i.e. Roman Republic, Nazi...

Not unlike the fading tones of a ringing crystal goblet, the spacetime continuum andthe universe itself may be oscillating through billions of years of cosmic time, say two U.S. physicists. In a paper recently published in The Astronomical Journal, physicists Harry Ringermacher and Lawrence Mead at the University of Southern Mississippi [...]

Medical and scientific research has a lot wrong with it---so who can you really trust? The truth is out there; here's where to start looking for it.

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Tensor networks could connect space-time froth to quantum information.

The worldview of modern physics teases us with spiritual suggestions like the discovery—premature it seems—of the “God particle.” That nickname embarrasses some in the field, but ever since Fritjof Capra’s book The Tao of Physics, the links between Eastern spiritual traditions and the findings of quantum physics have been tantalizing.   Now they are much […]

By Deepak Chopra, MD, and Jordan Flesher, BA Psychology   Over the past decade, the hunt for genetic connections with behavior as intensified. For any experience, there must be a physical activity in the brain—otherwise, the experience has no basis. Using this irrefutable assumption, researchers have looked for the seat of anger, criminal behavior, gender […]

The most beautiful art is not always found locked inside a museum - but on the human body itself. Check out these 11 mesmerizing & "artistic" naked bodies..