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The world’s most robust study of universal basic income has concluded that it boosts recipients’ mental and financial well-being, as well as modestly improving employment. Finland ran a two-year universal basic income study in 2017 […]

As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads around the world, there are few places where the virus itself hasn’t been able to reach. On the frigid landscape of Antarctica’s Ingrid Christensen Coast sits Davis Station, where 24 […]

Researchers explain why withdrawal from our usual environments—due to social distancing—has left dreamers with a dearth of “inspiration.” With hundreds of millions of people sheltering at home during the coronavirus pandemic, some dream experts believe […]

Science today stands at a crossroads: will its progress be driven by human minds or by the machines that we’ve created? A schism is emerging in the scientific enterprise. On the one side is the […]

Scientific American Custom Media talks to 2016 Kavli Prize Laureate Carla Shatz about how reshaping neural circuits could treat brain disorders and improve our ability to learn Through much of the 20th century, scientists believed […]

Quantum gravity has been formulated to tackle one of the greatest problems in all of physics: the need to unite the two great theories of the 20th century—general relativity and quantum mechanics. The former presents […]

Could the structure of the universe emerge from the repetition of a simple rule? Physicist Stephen Wolfram thinks he’s figured out a framework that unifies general relativity, quantum mechanics, and everything else we know about […]

Quantum entanglement is tough to dumb down, but this analogy illustrated here by the UK science writer Philip Ball, can help detangle it The term ‘quantum entanglement’ refers to quantum particles being interdependent even when […]