ToK Essays Nov 2024

Loss of linguistic diversity means less chance to discover age-old remedies not known to science, study warns

Physicists have long been unable to describe what happened just after the Big Bang when a teensy blip ballooned into the universe, a process called inflation. We may know why.

You’ve been hoaxed.The hoax seems harmless enough. A few thousand AI researchers have claimed that computers can read and write…

While the anti-scientific bias of religious fundamentalism requires condemnation, the human inclination towards spiritual practice does not require the same antagonism. One can be entirely faithful to science while making it one aspect of a broader practice embracing the totality of your experience as a human being in this more-than-human world.

Some thinkers believe that we have an extra sensory organ - a 'sensus divinitatis' - that allows us to experience directly God's influence in the universe. At best, it helps us to discover evidence to prove God'

Watching X-rays flung out into the universe by the supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy 800 million light-years away, Stanford University astrophysicist Dan Wilkins noticed an intriguing pattern. He observed a series of bright flares of X-rays—exciting, but not unprecedented—and then, the telescopes recorded something unexpected: additional flashes of X-rays that were smaller, later and of different "colors" than the bright flares.

Qin explained the unusual approach taken by his work:"Usually in physics, you make observations, create a theory based on those observations, and then use that theory to predict new observations, " said Qin. "What I'm doing is replacing this process with a type of black box that can produc

Massive melting of glaciers has tilted the planet’s rotation, showing the impact of human activities

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, East German citizens were offered the chance to read the files kept on them by the Stasi, the much-feared…

When people entertain transporting to the past, 19th-century Berlin, say, they don’t often imagine a dramatic shift in smellscape.…