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The theory is accurate within at least one part in a quadrillion.

Felicia had a job to do.

User-driven sites lead to user-based bias.

Astronomy’s roots rest in the very origins of humanity. We have always looked to the skies for answers. We are starting to get them.

Literature’s first utopia shows how far we’ve come.

Sixty years later, will anybody have heard of COVID?

The researchers consumed a lot of wine while watching 15 seasons of the show.

Organizational scientist Steven Rogelberg discusses the common meeting mistakes leaders make and how they can change course.

Biological age is a better health indicator than the number of years you’ve lived, but it’s tricky to measure.

It’s an agricultural moonshot: Scientists hope to increase plant yields by hacking photosynthesis, the process that powers life on Earth.

Adopting a healthy scepticism towards inherited ideas means “emptying the container of the Self.”

Rapamycin is potentially the most powerful anti-aging drug ever discovered. However, due to its unlucky history, few know of it.

Far from being a “dead” pursuit that focuses on old ideas, modern philosophy proposes and debates important, new concepts. All of us can learn from it.

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As wind power grows around the world, so does the threat the turbines pose to wildlife. From simple fixes to high-tech solutions, new approaches can help.

The time to begin exploring VR training is now. Here are the pros, cons, and different ways this technology can be utilized. 

In many ways, it was worse than Chernobyl.

Assume we can make new thylacines, mammoths, diprotodons, or sabre-tooth cats. Great. Now where do we put them?

HIV mutates rapidly, which has made the development of a vaccine an enormous challenge for decades. Finally, we might have one.

One hundred years ago, a Ukrainian flag flew over Vladivostok and other parts of the “Russian” Far East.

Some authors never saw their books score widespread acclaim—or even get published at all.

Holograms preserve all of an object’s 3D information, but on a 2D surface. Could the holographic Universe idea lead us to higher dimensions?

The Miller-Urey experiment showed that the building blocks of life could form in the primordial soup. But it overlooked one key variable.

We don’t know what causes Miyake events, but these great surges of energy can help us understand the past — while posing a threat to our future.

A conservator from the Rijksmuseum explains how they went about investigating whether the painting is a genuine Rembrandt.

Flexible organic circuits might someday hook right into your head.

You can buy over 400,000 products tagged “witch” on Etsy, from candles to spell bottles to pentagram necklaces.

Surely they can’t be worse…can they?

The minimum wage is a popular policy, but it’s not the only way governments have tried to help workers secure a decent living.

Life arose on Earth very early on. After a few billion years, here we are: intelligent and technologically advanced. Where’s everyone else?