It’s the early 20th century, and you are the captain of a ship. A barquentine specifically—three masts and a coal-burning steam engine in her belly. She’s a sturdy and capable […]
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Tusks suddenly became a liability, even though in natural circumstances, tusks are very useful.
Find out the truth for yourself. If this past year has shown us anything, it’s how thoroughly we rely on high-quality expertise. As the COVID-19 pandemic swept the globe, it […]
Once a book is published, who gets to interpret it? Us or the author?
With advanced laser technology and an appropriate sail, we could accelerate objects to ~20% the speed of light. But would they survive?
From Brahms to Tchaikovsky, here’s a curated list of composers whose music has shaped the classical canon.
The past ~4 billion years have been an incredibly successful, unbroken run for life on Earth. The future won’t be nearly so bright.
Scientists are solving the problem of costly energy storage.
Despite Betelgeuse’s recent faintening and brightening, I’d bet on these stars instead. Betelgeuse, a nearby red supergiant, will someday explode. The black hole at the center of the Milky Way should […]
We love a good heist movie, but our favorite part is not the caper. It’s building the team. The brilliant thief—just out of jail to do one more job, he […]
The question of anti-Semitism, Nazism, and a particularly nasty sibling haunted Nietzsche’s legacy.
Meet a spectacular new blue—the first inorganic new blue in some time.
Unstable politics and virtue signaling are responsible for creating bureaucratic nightmares.
Puerto Rico’s iconic telescope facilitated important scientific discoveries while inspiring young scientists and the public imagination.
A new wearable patch has been created at the University of California San Diego.
Once science operations begin for James Webb, we’ll never look at the Universe the same way again. Here’s what everyone should know.
All scientific theories, at some level, are wrong. That’s why consensus is so vital. There are two important and common words that, when used scientifically, have a very different meaning than […]
First picture of worldwide bee distribution fills knowledge gaps and may help protect species.
Vaccines can be grown in and extracted from the leaves of plants.
A strange object found in the desert has prompted worldwide speculation.
In a 2018 article, Gallup writer Ryan Pendell shared some frightening figures for business leaders. Public poll data showed that only a quarter of employees believed their leaders had a […]
The rites we give to the dead help us understand what it takes to go on living.
Deep underwater, temperatures are close to freezing and the pressure is 1,000 times higher than at sea level.
Why do we deprive students of the historical and cultural context of science?
In recent years, women have made incredible strides in the business world. Forty-one women currently lead Fortune 500 companies. While that remains an unacceptably low percentage (8 percent) overall, it […]
The inside of every black hole leads to the birth of a new Universe. Could our Universe have arisen from one?
Lake Baikal holds nearly one-fourth of Earth’s fresh surface water and is the most scientifically interesting lake on our planet.
Whether you write it 6/28 or 28/6, it’s perfection either way. Perfection might be a wonderful thing to strive for in life, but achieving it is very rare. In the realm […]
Since 2015, the Women in the Workplace report has evaluated the successes of women in corporate America alongside the challenges they face. Sponsored by McKinsey & Co. and Lean In, […]