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Aerial drone footage was sent to an AI trained to track down space rocks.

The Solar System isn’t a vortex, but rather the sum of all our great cosmic motions. Here’s how we move through space.

Was there an intelligent, technologically advanced species long before humans existed? Could there have been a dinosaur civilization?

Restflix has over 20 personalized channels for optimal sleep.

Society incorrectly blamed a “population bomb” for problems that had other causes. A wrong diagnosis produces ineffective solutions.

Out of the four rocky planets in our Solar System, only Earth presently has plate tectonics. But billions of years ago, Venus had them, too.

The relationship between these two ways of thinking about the world deserves deeper exploration.

You can lead an overconfident chatbot to expert knowledge, but can it actually learn and assimilate new information?

It’s common knowledge that syncing your circadian rhythm to a natural light-dark cycle could improve your health and well-being.

New blood types are regularly discovered by an unusual absence or an unusual presence — both of which can result in tragedy.

After a night of partying and heavy drinking, you might be tempted to Google “hangover cures.” Unfortunately, there aren’t any.

As we gain new knowledge, our scientific picture of how the Universe works must evolve. This is a feature of the Big Bang, not a bug.

According to neuropsychologist Julia DiGangi, no one can live a life free of emotional pain. We can only choose how those emotions empower us.

Although we still don’t know the question, we know that the answer to life, the Universe, and everything is 42. Here are 5 possibilities.

The odds are slim, but the consequences would be devastating. Here’s what would happen, plus how to avoid it.

50% of stars are in Sun-like ‘singlet’ systems. The planetary nebulae we see just don’t line up. Around 7 billion years from now, our Sun’s life will end. As the Sun […]

Scientists have discovered enzymes from several plastic-eating bacteria. So, why are our oceans still full of plastic pollution?

Resilience training can be instrumental in helping employees recover from difficulties and embrace change in the workplace.

From mobile learning to microlearning, these five methods for training employees are some of the most effective in the modern world of business.

2023’s Nobel Prize was awarded for studying physics on tiny, attosecond-level timescales. Too bad that particle physics happens even faster.

Unmasking a “convenient untruth” in U.S. politics.

Retired astronaut Ron Garan believes that before we can begin solving our problems, we must understand our interrelatedness through the “orbital perspective.”

Detective fiction reveals how a particular society or time period looks at crime and criminal justice.

Zen masters often have strikingly different ideas about how to live and attain enlightenment.

In the quest to measure how antimatter falls, the possibility that it fell “up” provided hope for warp drive. Here’s how it all fell apart.

Astronomers claim to have found structures so large, they shouldn’t exist. With such biased, incomplete observations, perhaps they don’t.

Memes communicate complex ideas quickly and efficiently, but that’s precisely what makes them so dangerous. 

Instead of just Afghanistan, the U.S. military ought to withdraw from the entire Middle East and much of the rest of the world.

Maps can do more than show us places. They also can help determined people find others long lost, whether birth mothers or fugitive killers.

The story of China is the story of global economics.