By leveraging the difference between lit and shadowed areas, a new energy source perfect for wearables is invented.
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Our Solar System’s outer reaches, and what’s in them, was predicted long before the first Oort Cloud object was ever discovered.
Jains believe that karma weighs the soul down. This can be overcome through extreme asceticism, in which one slowly withdraws from life.
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Animals are adapting all the time these days to stay out of our way.
Scientists are solving the problem of costly energy storage.
Why do we deprive students of the historical and cultural context of science?
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Aliens symbolize the best and worst of humanity. When we dream of aliens, we are pondering our future selves.
The Metaverse could be the most dangerous tool of persuasion humanity has ever created.
In America, Cup Noodles has succeeded by hiding its Japanese roots.
A new study found that personality growth in young adults predicted career benefits such as income, degree attainment, and job satisfaction.
In one of the ocean’s most lifeless places, scientists discover and resuscitate ancient organisms.
Hunter-gatherers probably had more spare time than you.
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A far-ranging conversation about telescopes, what they do, and who they impact. When most of us think of astronomy, we think about two types of scientists: the observers who point their […]
Wind energy is one of the cleanest, greenest sources of power. But could it have the sneaky side-effect of changing the weather?
More than any other nation, Japan tends to feel comfortable with the idea of humanoid robots entering the home.
A new agricultural revolution could forever change the planet.
Even with only 12.5 hours of exposure time, James Webb’s first deep-field image taught us lessons we’ve never realized before.
75 years after Erwin Schrödinger’s prescient description of something like DNA, we still don’t know the “laws of life.”
Way back in 1965, the soon-to-be founder of Intel, Gordon Moore, published a paper predicting that the number of transistors that could fit on a computer chip would double every […]
‘Fast Optical Bursts’ will confound ground-based astronomy. As of 2021, planet Earth is currently experiencing the least pristine night sky in recorded history. Prior to the development of artificial lighting, […]
A cartogram makes it easy to compare regional and national GDPs at a glance.
Want to tell someone’s future in the US? You don’t need a crystal ball, just their zip code.
To date, only one research vessel has ever encountered a milky sea.
Rezi has helped job-seekers land interviews with Airbnb, Spotify, Google, Atlassian, and Microsoft.
Innovative drugs are sometimes held up due to old-fashioned human biases.