Melting ice is turning up bodies on Mt. Everest. This isn’t as shocking as you’d think.
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General Relativity had to be right. Here’s how we knew. What happens to light when it passes near a large mass? Does it simply continue in a straight line, undeflected from […]
Faraday’s law of induction was set forth in 1834, and was the experiment that led Einstein to discover relativity. When we think about Einstein and the theory of relativity, all […]
It could put the American fossil fuel industry on a clear path to extinction.
With an assist from Einstein’s gravity and the power of the Hubble Space Telescope, it’s the brightest quasar we’ve ever discovered. In astronomy, there are two types of questions to […]
Disagreements are inevitable — we all have different experiences that lead us to be who we are and to what we believe. Almost as inevitable are distrust, suspicion, and even […]
A review of Matthew Engelke’s How to Think Like an Anthropologist.
How can Innovation Central not manage to solve its own sprawling homelessness?
A study of 323 uprisings against repressive regimes yields stunning insights.
Here are four separate ways you can prove it, even 50 years after-the-fact. 50 years ago, on July 20, 1969, humanity took our first footsteps on the surface of another […]
The small step that one man took would never have happened without this narrow escape. On July 20, 1969, history was made as humanity set foot on the Moon for the […]
If dark matter doesn’t interact with normal matter or light, how can it be heated up? One of the great cosmic mysteries of our time is the presence and existence of […]
Our Sun will someday run out of fuel. Here’s what it will look like when that happens. The fate of our Sun is unambiguous, determined solely by its mass. If all […]
A therapist explains acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT).
China has long spied on its own citizens, but a new report shows how foreigners are increasingly falling under the nation’s watchful eye.
An elegant, 400-year-old means of navigating the stars takes flight.
The 116th Congress is set to break records in term of diversity among its lawmakers, though those changes are coming almost entirely from Democrats.
Elite organizations tend to get conspiracy theorists going.
A consortium of scientists and engineers have proposed that the U.S. and Mexico build a series of guarded solar, wind, natural gas and desalination facilities along the entirety of the border.
2019 is on track to becoming a record-high year for measles cases in the U.S.
Researchers evaluated the best and worst ways to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere in a recent report.
New computing theory allows artificial intelligences to store memories.
Cat owners are no more likely to be crazy than you.
In cities, people tend to think of parks as dangerous.
Turning the office into a place of artistry.
Logos, pathos, and ethos can help you bring people over to your side.
How fast is the Universe expanding? The results might be pointing to something incredible. If you want to know how something in the Universe works, all you need to do […]
For billions of years, dark energy couldn’t have been detected. Now, it’s everywhere we look. When we look out at the ultra-distant Universe, billion of light-years away, we’re seeing it as […]
These are the top advances in technology that will impact the world in the coming decade.