In an essay for The Wall Street Journal, Emily Falk explains how small talk establishes a brain “synchrony” that allows for more meaningful conversations.
Dark energy may not have always provided a steady push as cosmologists have assumed for decades. Instead, recent data adds more evidence that the universe’s expansion accelerated faster in the past than it is doing now. “I think the implications for cosmology are going to be profound,” said Bhuvnesh Jain.