If we succeed in contacting them, will that seal humanity’s doom? One of the most wondrous questions of all concerns our place in the Universe. After 13.8 billion years of […]
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For a long time, important events could only be visualized retroactively through paintings. Photography allowed us to capture history as — or sometimes even before — it happened.
Like it or not, we are the descendants of busybodies.
Great genius is not born of lightning bolt-like moments of inspiration. In reality, perseverance plays the biggest role.
The decades-long conflict is best understood not through secondhand accounts of historians, but the primary accounts of people who actually experienced it.
Searching for happiness in the midst of personal or societal crises are nothing new.
In this 1915 map, Lady Liberty shines her light in the West on women in the East, still in electoral darkness
Is college worth it? This question may seem a no-brainer, but there are many reasons why it is worthy of serious deliberation. Here are three.
From here on Earth, looking farther away in space means looking farther back in time. So what are distant Earth-watchers seeing right now?
We still don’t know what dark matter is, but at least we now know what it’s not. When it comes to science, we often say that it only takes a single […]
Once numbering just 27 birds, the global population of California condors is now in the hundreds.
Our Solar System’s outer reaches, and what’s in them, was predicted long before the first Oort Cloud object was ever discovered.
The mummy was first thought to be a male priest. But a recent radiological analysis revealed a surprising anomaly.
Legendary cartoonist John Groth’s pictorial map captures LA’s film factories in their Golden Age.
Stockholm Syndrome is the most famous of 10 psychological disorders named after world cities. Most relate to tourism or hostage-taking.
Since the time of Galileo, Saturn’s rings have remained an unexplained mystery. A new idea may have finally solved the longstanding puzzle.
Circle spoofing is an advanced form of GPS manipulation – but nobody knows exactly how, or why.
That’s as fast as a bullet train in Japan.
Saturn’s Iapetus, discovered way back in 1671, has three bizarre features that science still can’t fully explain.
David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian were awarded the highest honor in medicine for their research into how human bodies make sense of and respond to the outside world.
In all of science, no figures have changed the world more than Einstein and Newton. Will anyone ever be as revolutionary again?
The Standard Model of elementary particles has three nearly identical copies of particles: generations. And nobody knows why.
After years of speculation a team of researchers has pinpointed the age of this ancient mystery.
Even at its faintest, Venus always outshines every other star and planet that’s visible from Earth, and then some!
Over the coming decades, over 100,000 new satellites are expected. For countless millennia, whenever we were faced with a clear, cloudless, moonless night, all of humanity was able to witness […]
From hellishly hot planets to water worlds, some distant planets are like nothing in our Solar System.
A well-known psychology trick called the “rubber hand illusion” could be useful for treating patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
More work is needed before declaring the technique a fountain of youth.
Before it fueled Woodstock and the Summer of Love, LSD was brought to America to make spying easier.