Science
Weiner Sobs, Telling Judge He’s Sick as He Faces Years in Prison for Sexting
Disgraced ex-congressman and serial sexter Anthony Weiner sobbed Friday morning as he admitted to exchanging X-rated messages with a 15-year-old girl.
Scientists Claim They’ve Developed a Psychological ‘Vaccine’ Against Fake News
Scientists say they’ve developed a psychological ‘vaccine’ for fake news, which can be used to inoculate the public against misinformation.
New Mind-blowing Experiment Confirms That Reality Doesn’t Exist If You Are Not Looking at It
According to a well-known theory in quantum physics, a particle’s behavior changes depending on whether there is an observer or not. It basically suggests that reality is a kind of illusion and exists only when we are looking at it.
Stephen Hawking Makes It Clear: There Is No God
The physicist explains that science now offers more convincing explanations for existence. He is therefore an atheist.
Interactive Fractal Tree of Life Zooms In On Earth’s Entire Evolutionary History
A new interactive website shows a phylogenetic tree of everything, as zoomable as Google Earth.
NASA under orders to build a deep-space habitat by 2018
Congress has instructed NASA to step up the development of a “habitation module” that can take astronauts on deep space missions.
The Best of the Year’s Otherworldly Science Images
The year’s best science images don’t really need any words as ornament—they’re terrifying and gorgeous and confounding on their own.