Lawmakers in Mexico have approved a bill to legalize recreational cannabis, but in a country still marred by a deadly drug war, the proposal has proved divisive.

Neuroscientist Simon Baron-Cohen argues in his new book 'The Pattern Seekers' that 70,000 years ago humans evolved new abilities for systemization and innovation, and that autism spectrum disorders may reflect an overexpression of that ability.

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Professor Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: "The machine, the ghost, and the limits of understanding: Newton's contributions to the study of mind" at the University of Oslo, September 2011. Q&A at 45:33

Spurred on by quantum experiments that scramble the ordering of causes and their effects, some physicists are figuring out how to abandon causality altogether.

The venerable Hubble Space Telescope is recovering from a glitch that halted its science operations over the weekend, according to NASA.

One of the big new things in the Citus 10 extension to PostgreSQL is that we open sourced the shard rebalancer. This post explains how the shard rebalancer works, options for different rebalancing strategies, how to use it, and how shard rebalancing makes…

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An international team of scientists has announced the discovery of an extraordinary fossilized nest in China, preserving at least eight separate dinosaurs from 70 million years ago. 

Scientists have long theorized that supermassive black holes can wander through space—but catching them in the act has proven difficult.

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