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In pre-War Cambridge, students had to ace an interview with Ludwig Wittgenstein to attend his lectures — Alan Turing passed that test, and went on to create one of his own.
One reason saving is hard: We tend to view our “future selves” as complete strangers, and our decisions in the present moment reflect that.
Many animals practice what looks like self-medication. A new report suggests that chimps tend wounds with insects, often treating each other.
From Amazon to the US Army, everybody wants one (or 150).
About six million years ago, the Mediterranean was sealed off from the Atlantic, and over centuries it ran dry. One megaflood reversed that.
A new control system, demonstrated using MIT’s robotic mini cheetah, enables four-legged robots to jump across uneven terrain in real-time.
Back in the 1930s, Fritz Zwicky postulated the existence of dark matter. No one took it seriously until Vera Rubin’s work: 40 years later.
We will have a better shot at improving our lives once we come to understand, know, and love the people we will one day become.
Ignoring the legacy of William Shakespeare is difficult for any writer, let alone one as quintessentially English as “Lord of the Rings” author J.R.R. Tolkien.
There were many other species of human on the planet. Svante Pääbo discovered one of them.
Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works engineering division has devised many jaw-dropping aircraft. Here are some of the best — and one ship.
“It’s not a secret that legal language is very hard to understand. It’s borderline incomprehensible a lot of the time.”
According to neuropsychologist Julia DiGangi, no one can live a life free of emotional pain. We can only choose how those emotions empower us.
There is one House member for every 761,169 people, which isn’t exactly representative.
We don’t need one Elon Musk. We need 8 billion empathic futurists.
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We can reasonably say that we understand the history of the Universe within one-trillionth of a second after the Big Bang. That’s not good enough.
One theory for catatonia is that it is similar to an animal’s “death feint.”
From physics and alchemy to theology and eschatology, Isaac Newton’s research was rooted in a personal pursuit of the Divine.
Most potentially hazardous asteroids remain unidentified. NEO surveyor could change that, but only if it’s funded, and soon.
The quantum world is one in which rules that are completely foreign to our everyday experience dictate bizarre behavior.
Just as there are many types of believers, there’s not only one type of atheist.
Gum disease begins in the mouth but spreads to the joints. Rheumatoid arthritis is just one of several diseases linked to poor oral health.
Parking lots are about one-fifth of all land in U.S. city centers, making them “easy to get to, but not worth arriving at.”
Finding out how the Universe grew up was the biggest science goal of JWST. This ultra-early proto-galaxy cluster is one amazing discovery.
The hot Big Bang is often touted as the beginning of the Universe. But there’s one piece of evidence we can’t ignore that shows otherwise.
Queen Elizabeth II has died. How is this loss different from that of a loved one?
St Nick had a history of teleporting long before needing to reach all the world’s children in one night.
If you want to write and speak well, use common words, not grandiose ones. Unless you’re Shakespeare, you’re more likely to annoy people.
We all know assholes. Perhaps, you are one. Now, psychologists are trying to answer one of life’s biggest mysteries: What, exactly, makes someone an asshole?