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Most exoplanets have been found around single stars via the transit method. But binary star systems might contain even more of them.
While our world is in a period of indefinite stasis, people’s needs aren’t. Now is the time to become positive disruptors, creating the transformations that need to happen to make […]
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According to Tolkien, fantasy requires a deep imagination known as “sub-creation.” And the genre reflects a fundamental truth of being human.
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The story of China is the story of global economics.
Our greatest tool for exploring the world inside atoms and molecules, and specifically electron transitions, just won 2023’s Nobel Prize.
In all of science, no figures have changed the world more than Einstein and Newton. Will anyone ever be as revolutionary again?
Discussions of human evolution are usually backward looking, as if the greatest triumphs and challenges were in the distant past.
A new theory suggests that dreams’ illogical logic has an important purpose.
Porcine gene edits may allow such transplants without rejection.
How should we think about the tension between opening the economy back up and preserving public health?
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Seneca thought the use of ice was a “true fever of the most malignant kind.”
Writers, filmmakers, and mythologizing biographers tend to imagine innovation originates with a lone genius who has “the spark,” that light-bulb moment when the path from inspiration to world-altering invention reveals […]
Just a small gesture or a thoughtful comment can often alter a situation, or people’s perceptions of it, in ways that relieve tensions and make them feel appreciated and included.
How can researchers map something as complex as the human brain?
The Big Bang was hot, dense, uniform, and filled with matter and energy. Before that? There was nothing. Here’s how that’s possible.
Where did the “seed” magnetic field come from in the first place?
Late-night shows, developed during the “golden age” of TV, are no longer as relevant in the age of streaming services and Donald Trump.
A clock, designed and built in Europe, ran hopelessly at the wrong rate when brought to America. The physics of gravity explains why.
Many people believe that in the face of profound evil, they would have the courage to speak up. It might be harder than we think.
Memory, responsibility, and mental maturity have long been difficult to describe objectively, but neuroscientists are starting to detect patterns. Coming soon to a courtroom near you?
A fairly old idea, but a really good one, is about to hit the store shelves.
The attack on the Capitol forces us to confront an existential question about privacy.
After the unrelenting negativity of 2020, we may need a refresher on the benefits of a positive affect.
Dark energy is one of the biggest mysteries in all the Universe. Is there some way to avoid “having to live with it?”
The famous social robot is about to start rolling off the assembly line.
If love is an addiction, your first love is the first dose.
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