Also on China, Jews, ‘game theory paradox’, Antifa, Trump supporters, gun laws… **Trigger Warning** Game theoretically, the left-right political divide is an understood phenomenon. Such polarization…

A general trigger warning I will link to in some future articles: The following text is quite likely disturbing. Relax and be assured about that this is so because you are evolved and shaped to…

This is a speech Stephen Hawking gave at the Web Summit conference in Lisbon on Monday. It’s actually an upbeat and optimistic speech, but one particular phrase from the speech is scaring many people…

There is additional evidence a mantle plume, basically a geothermal heat source such as a volcano, is below Antarctica's Marie Byrd Land and it explains a substantial amount of the melting that…

Life in the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) is not exactly paradise. Children are indoctrinated, women are severely oppressed, and infidels are beheaded. Ancient cultural artifacts and historical…

Writing a serious review of research in particle physics is a refreshing job - all the things that you already knew on that specific topic once sat on a fuzzy cloud somewhere in your brain, and now…

To see the problem try a google news search for Planet X - and see if you find anything there about the genuine astronomical search for planets beyond Neptune. It's filled with stories saying that…

Physics Today says the culture of physics itself is to blame for the gender pay gap.   Staff writer Toni Feder cobbled together data from a 2010 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and…

Today, the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors issued a an urgent public alert regarding the dangers posed by drugs currently circulating America’s streets and neighborhoods as a result of…

The world’s second densest metal can be used to kill cancer cells by filling them with a deadly version of oxygen, without harming healthy tissue, according to a new paper. The metal, iridium, was in…