Masks and Emasculation: Why Some Men Refuse to Take Safety Precautions
They think it makes them look weak, and avoiding that is evidently more important to them than demonstrating responsible behavior
They think it makes them look weak, and avoiding that is evidently more important to them than demonstrating responsible behavior
Phil Anderson’s article “More Is Different” describes how different levels of complexity require new ways of thinking. And as the virus multiplies and spreads, that’s just what the human race desperately needs...
The pandemic is no excuse to abandon chronic disease management and prevention
How can tiny collapsing bubbles inside a vat of water or other liquid reach temperatures of 20,000 degrees C? Nobody has a clue
They want you to be excited, too, so they produce their own music videos—the latest inspired by Flo Rida’s "My House"
The winning science of weird materials, nanoscale cars and self-eating cells
If there is life on the Red Planet—even just alien microbes clinging to existence in isolated refuges—any biological contamination we import from Earth could cause an ecological and scientific catastrophe...
Part science documentary, part meditation on the meaning of life, director Terrence Malik’s (“The Tree of Life,” “The Thin Red Line”) new IMAX movie “Voyage of Time” is hard to categorize...
A simulation of Sputnik Planum's formation supports the idea of a deep, salty ocean
The SpaceX vision for a multiplanet species prompts thinking on how to make a planet more habitable
Little red stars pose big questions in the search for intelligent life
Hubble Space Telescope catches the details of a complex cometary breakup as it approaches the sun
A skeptical science writer critiques strings, multiverses, meditation, the Singularity and “neo-geocentrism.”