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The site will be the first working example of a geological disposal facility.
What if we could harvest energy from human heat, sweat, or vibrations?
All matter particles can act as waves, and massless light waves show particle-like behavior. Can gravitational waves also be particle-like?
Who doesn’t love a little existential fear every once in a while?
Our inaugural special issue is focused on progress — the search for, the study of, and the project towards a better world.
Dark matter has never been directly detected, but the astronomical evidence for its existence is overwhelming. Here’s what to know.
In the Canaan religion, Yahweh was a lesser god, who was assigned the land of Israel. Here’s how he became “God Almighty.”
In logic, ‘reductio ad absurdum’ shows how flawed arguments fall apart. Our absurd Universe, however, often defies our intuitive reasoning.
“Time Warp” all the way back to 1800s spiritualism, magic performances, and spook shows.
A food safety researcher explains another way to know what’s too old to eat.
In 200 years, the mortality rate for children under the age of five (per 1,000 live births) has dropped from 40% to 3.7%.
All American and European eels originate in the same place.
Turning away is a natural response.
Yes, there are reasons to worry about Twitter, but it’s not about the bots.
Famished, not famous: retrace Orwell’s hunger days, when he was one of the city’s legion of poor foreigners.
Anesthesia causes animals and humans to lose consciousness. A study found it has a similar effect on Venus flytraps.
Germany finds itself once again allowing a murderous dictator to run rampant in Europe, though this time it is due to incompetence and technophobia rather than malice.
A second Enlightenment would have a far bigger task: Saving civilization itself.
“The surface is no longer a record of every impact the moon has ever had, because at some point, impacts were erasing previous impacts.”
After the 2011 Fukushima disaster, it was Germany, not Japan, that cracked down most severely on nuclear power plants.
The last 70 years have taken us farther than the previous 70,000. But can we accomplish more than creating a record saying, “We were here?”
Contrary to popular belief, it’s not to mark Mexican independence.
Human organs don’t always show up where doctors expect.
Gods and angels have been replaced with hi-tech extraterrestrials.
Salt causes a dehydration-like state that encourages the conversion of the starch in the french fry to fructose.
Airports are like mini-cities: they have places of worship, policing, hotels, fine dining, shopping, and mass transit.
Coupled with 3D printing, biomining the Moon or Mars with microbes could sustain human colonies without constant re-supply from Earth.