After my father died, my journey of rediscovery began with the Czech language.
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Hermann Minkowski called Einstein a "lazybones" with a "not very solid" education. Less than 10 years later, he would eat his words.
Our greatest tool for exploring the world inside atoms and molecules, and specifically electron transitions, just won 2023's Nobel Prize.
The underground burial tombs were used at least as far back as 2500 B.C.
"You gotta know when to fold 'em."
“What am I missing?” is a question that journalist Mónica Guzmán thinks more people should start asking.
It took 9.2 billion years of cosmic evolution before our Sun and Solar System even began to form. Such a small event has led to so much.
The Kazungula Bridge connects Zambia and Botswana, barely missing Namibia and Zimbabwe.
The microscopic tardigrades are an elusive species. Fossils are rare, but each new find adds a piece to their unsolved evolutionary puzzle.
For millennia, diamonds were the hardest known material, but they only rank at #7 on the current list. Can you guess which material is #1?
We should not romanticize ancient Egyptian culture.
Learning styles are supposed to help learners take ownership of their education, but research doesn’t back up this well-intentioned myth.
From succubi to aliens, stories of abductions or other unsettling encounters have been with us for millennia. What explains them?
People around the world, mostly Generation Z, are obsessed with the look and feel of gothic, elitist universities. Why?
Roughly the size of a thumbnail, this newly discovered toadlet has some anatomical surprises.
Nearly 200 orbital launches are scheduled for 2022.
Any dataset that can be quantified over time can be turned into a contest that is both exciting and (a little bit) enlightening.
From the present day all the way to less than 400 million years after the Big Bang, we're seeing how the Universe grew up like never before.
Two very different ideas, wormholes and quantum entanglement, might be fundamentally related. What would "ER = EPR" mean for our Universe?
JWST just found its first transiting exoplanet, and it's 99% the size of Earth. But with no atmosphere seen, perhaps air is truly rare.
The gospels imply that Jesus became famous as much for his exorcisms as his ministry.
If computers can beat us at chess, maybe they could beat us at math, too.
In a world without "bullshit jobs," we would have more hours available to us to learn new skills and to unleash our creative side.
Finding alien technology on the seafloor would be truly incredible. This extraordinary claim, however, is debunked by the actual evidence.
This year marks 2,000 years since the birth of the Roman author of the first natural encyclopedia.
Sex, it turns out, isn’t as easy or simple as popular culture might lead us to believe.
Recasting the iconic Carrington Event as just one of many superstorms in Earth’s past, scientists reveal the potential for even more massive eruptions from the sun.
From "shell shock" to "combat fatigue," the wars of the past century have violently illuminated the power trauma can wield over the mind and body.
Brands manufacture meaning through consensus; people must strive to create their own.
Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York is the kind of film that makes you laugh and cry at the same time.