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Dive into seven texts that continue to shape Western philosophy, from ancient Mesopotamia to Greece's brightest minds.
It temporarily puts the immune system on high alert to prevent MRSA, pneumonia, and other infections in the hospital.
About six million years ago, the Mediterranean was sealed off from the Atlantic, and over centuries it ran dry. One megaflood reversed that.
What a long strange trip it's been.
The existential philosopher argued that an authentic and meaningful life is measured by choice.
The anxieties underpinning the Great Resignation were simmering for a long time. Here’s a solution.
We are traveling in a realm that once exclusively belonged to the gods. Space travel will force humanity to rethink everything.
Every Christmas could be the last Christmas.
Day trading has the potential to yield incredible profits, but without a time machine, you’re unlikely to achieve them.
Mindfulness, detachment, selecting off-time activities with care: Here are evidence-based strategies to achieve healthy work-life balance.
The miniaturization of particle accelerators could disrupt medical science.
The problem with carnivores turned omnivores.
Almost all royal lines try to legitimize their rule with legendary origin stories. Here are five of the strangest examples.
Smarter building materials can control indoor temperatures without external power.
Technology goes in directions we can never predict — so we must be prepared to limit the spread of unintended consequences.
Billy was a local celebrity in the early 1900s. And he might have been a murderer.
Experts believe they could cut the time it takes a rocket to reach Mars by up to 25%, shaving about two months off the trip.
Meet the masterful con-men who impressed the great and the good despite the astonishing fiction of their very existence.
Dr. Katie Mack explains what dark energy is and two ways it could one day destroy the universe.
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The question of why the Universe is the way it is is an ancient one, and none of the answers we have come up with are satisfying.
Lost in a building or underwater? A new muon-based navigation system could be your guide.
Every astrobiologist wants to find an alien. But the public should be skeptical when the "aliens" look like tiny humans.
The DARPA-funded memory prosthesis helps the brain retain new information.
Not too hot, not too cold...
The philosophy of sex is going through a recalibration period.
Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein are locked in an eternal battle over the nature of gravity. Whose side are you on?
These dissolvable pills aren’t meant to be swallowed, though.
From "Thompson's violinist" to the "Experience Machine," these thought experiments will throw your mind for a loop.
In Kannauj, perfumers have been making monsoon-infused mitti attar for centuries.