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Progress got derailed somewhere between indoor plumbing and the flying car. Why?
Research shows that bone fragments of Jesus’s (possible) brother belong to someone else.
As a form of civil disobedience, hacking can help make the world a better place.
The discovery could help astronauts find better ways to grow food in space.
The night sky is already noticeably different, and bigger changes are ahead. For all of human history until the launch of Sputnik, the only objects in the night sky were naturally […]
The fruits of long-term thinking will reveal themselves in five or ten or 30 years, when you’ve created the future you’ve always wanted.
A 71% wet Mars would have two major land masses and one giant ‘Medimartian Sea.’
If you think ‘particles are matter’ and ‘antiparticles are antimatter,’ think again. In this Universe, there are certain rules that have never been observed to be broken. Some of these […]
Famished, not famous: retrace Orwell’s hunger days, when he was one of the city’s legion of poor foreigners.
All of these conflicts have a long history. They may also have a long future.
What started as a viral case of public shaming has morphed into a dark story involving internet sleuths, a criminal network, and the suspicious death of a 62-year-old man in St. Louis.
Galactic archaeology has uncovered a spectacular find: the Milky Way already existed more than 13 billion years ago.
The ‘final parsec problem’ is still a mystery for astronomers. When it comes to black holes in the Universe, we know there are at least two major types. There are […]
Society-changing ideas form through a three-stage process, argues author Michael Bhaskar.
Small sample size? No underlying theory? Conflicts with all other results? It checks all the boxes. There’s nothing that’s special, on a cosmic scale, about our place in the Universe. Not […]
The present-moment awareness that stems from mindfulness practices may be the cost-effective tool that our society needs.
Due to deteriorating health, all Beethoven left behind for his final symphony were some musical sketches.
The young man died nearly 2,000 years ago in the volcanic eruption that buried Pompeii.
With the coronavirus pandemic upending summer plans, now’s the perfect time to learn something new.
Even the most unorthodox posthumous plans have their own historical, spiritual, and scientific significance.
Scientists put the most mysterious force in the Universe to the ultimate test. When it comes to the Universe, it’s easy to make the incorrect assumption that what we see is […]
In an excerpt from her recent book, the behavior geneticist Kathryn Paige Harden carefully explores a topic that’s often considered taboo: how genetics affect life outcomes.
The satellite would burn instead of becoming more space debris.
Scientists find routes using arches of chaos that can lead to much faster space travel.
It’s not just about SpaceX and Starlink. What we’re deciding today will have a global impact for years and decades to come. For countless millennia, human beings have gazed up into […]
If we succeed in contacting them, will that seal humanity’s doom? One of the most wondrous questions of all concerns our place in the Universe. After 13.8 billion years of […]
Awe-inspiring moments can be found in our daily lives, and they have surprising benefits for our health and sense of well-being.
There’s a lot to get rid of if we want to get only our Universe out of String Theory. A lot of people, when they learn about String Theory for the […]
Australian researchers figure out a new way to apply extreme pressure and squeeze out diamonds.