This post was co-authored by Gregor U. Hayn-Leichsenring We are used to thinking about people, places, and things as beautiful. A particular combination of sensations evokes the pleasure that ...

The internet is stuffed with online quizzes and surveys, ranging from which "Friends" character you are to who you're about to vote for. But the BBC recently asked something more profound of its ...

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What were the most important equations of 20th-century science? Here are 11 essays, aimed at non-specialists, each centred on a different equation. The authors are distinguished in their various ...

“Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don’t know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth.” —Benjamin ...