ToK Essays Nov 2024

The man behind the BBC radio show More or Less says a grasp of statistics is more important than ever in the age of coronavirus

While TED talks and internet memes spread fears we're being mind-controlled by our feline friends, the reality might be somewhat less dramatic

A machine mapped the most frequently used emotional trajectories in fiction, and compared them with the ones readers like best.

The researchers wrote that they were astonished by their findings. By Christian Jarrett

The consequences of rape, maltreatment, disease and racism are revealed by the findings.

God only started watching over us quite recently, according to a new study that analysed 414 societies from 30 world regions.

Smart people can have really bad ideas – like selectively breeding human beings to improve the species. Put into practice, Galton's concept proved discriminatory, damaging, even deadly.

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

Cornell University researchers analyzing 38 million English-language articles about the pandemic found that President Trump was the largest driver of the “infodemic.”

Weighing the universe is a tricky task, but a team of astronomers have used a clever technique to measure how many galaxy clusters are in the cosmos, and from there come up with a total amount of matter. The answer: 31.5±1.3% of all the energy in the universe. Galaxy clusters are the largest gravitationally-bound objects … Continue reading "Matter makes up exactly 31.5±1.3% of the Universe"

Researchers at the University of Oxford identified the pattern in hospital case data for England.