Space Technologies We Use Every Day
It is commonplace to say that all that was science fiction several decades ago has become reality nowadays. However, people often underestimate the extent to…
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Is Humanity Alone in the Universe? Unlikely.
The debates about whether sentient life is a unique phenomenon in our universe or not has lasted decades. From dogmatic beliefs about humanity having been…
Why Humanity Should Leave Earth
The times when space flight was something unimaginable are long gone. It is hardly something mundane and habitual: each spacecraft launch requires large sums of…
Mars
By Nicholas Klacsanzky Mars is featured in countless science-fiction books, non-fiction books, cartoons, films, and more. However, how much do we know about the Red…
Humanity 2.0: What is Transhumanism
During the course of hundreds of thousands of years since the first ancestor of modern homo sapiens stretched its back in a distant, gloomy jungle,…
Who Are Introverts, and What is So Special About Them?
Throughout recent decades, psychology has become extremely popular among people of all ages across continents. Having started (in its modern appearance) as a radical theory…
Water
We take water for granted. Though we drink it throughout the day, though we cannot function without it, and though it is present in all…
Exotic Animals: The Ocean Sunfish
Every time scientists plunge into the darkest depths of the ocean, they come upon new, startling species. Sometimes only one deep dive can uncover thousands…
Psychological Manipulations
Being a part of a society implies communicating with a number of different people. And, of course, any interaction and act of communication with another…
The Introduction of Cannabis to Modern Western Medicine
By Sujaan Mukherjee In 1833, a twenty-four-year-old Edinburgh graduate arrived in India, an assistant surgeon in the East India Company. He had failed to acquire…
GMOs and Their Role in Nutrition
Throughout recent decades, the food industry has remained at the center of public debates. “We are what we eat,” as the saying goes, and naturally,…
Why Writing Skills are Important for Scientists
Throughout the last five or six decades, science has become almost an object of cult worship for societies all over the world. By the end…
Before the Big Bang
Physicists usually point to the Big Bang or Big Expansion as the beginning of the universe, and from cosmic microwave background radiation, physicists predict that…
Sam Harris on the Science of Good and Evil
By Dolan Cummings American philosopher and neuroscientist Sam Harris, author of The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values, is on a mission to…
Nature and Nurture, Then and Now
By Timandra Harkness ‘Oklahoma, 1973’, begins the documentary account of an experiment to teach a baby chimpanzee human language and thus, in the words of…
What Causes Low Self-Esteem?
Throughout the recent decades, psychology has become extremely popular in western countries. Starting from all kinds of coaching programs, personality trainings, and professional psychotherapy sessions,…
Just Another Ape? by Dr Helene Guldberg
By Robin Walsh It is commonplace today that chimpanzees are our brothers. They are 98% genetically identical to us, and they and bonobos are closer…
A Return to Beauty and Civility?
By Valentine Rossetti The question of beauty in art has, over the past few years, come more and more into question. Both critics and philosophers…
Bionic Eyes
Prosthetics have existed for hundreds of years. All of us are familiar with the stereotypical image of a pirate: a one-eyed bandit with a wooden…
Inventing the Recording
By Eva Moreda Rodríguez To the question “When were recordings invented?”, we might be tempted to answer “1877”—the year when Thomas A. Edison was first…
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