An army of replicators belonging to national laboratories, research universities, and amateur garages is rushing to replicate ambient superconductivity in LK-99.
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The JFK Memorial at Runnymede provides a link between America’s and Britain’s founding documents.
The global extent of the Revolutionary War surprises many Americans today — but it was crucial to independence.
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Before becoming America’s most infamous assassin, John Wilkes Booth was a magnetic actor who was beloved by audiences and courted by critics.
From acclaimed novels to heretical treatises, sometimes a writer just doesn’t want to put their name on the cover.
The true story of the shot that “reverberated through England” when science collided head-on with religion.
Dreams of resurrecting lost species didn’t start in Hollywood or Silicon Valley.
The pseudoscience phrenology swept the popular imagination, and its practitioners made a mint preying on prejudices, gullibility, and misinformation.
A physicist, a psychologist, and a philosopher walk into a bar and discuss a framework for thinking better in the 21st century.
“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
Long before the search for biosignatures, scientists imagined a cosmos teeming with intelligent life.
What happens when scientists “write what they know”? Some amazing science fiction stories.
Hunger rates are rising. These technologies could turn the tide.
Digital analyses of Enlightenment-era letters are teaching us a thing or two about Locke, Voltaire, and others.
Debate is a verbal sport with winners and losers. As such, it is less about the truth and more about who looks and sounds the best.
Democratic freedom, rapturous religion, and newspapers created a hotbed for social experimentation in 19th-century America.
Whatever your length of service in the top role, this tool-box will help you conquer adversity — and thrive.
For thousands of years, humanity had no idea how far away the stars were. In the 1600s, Newton, Huygens, and Hooke all claimed to get there.
Was the terror of Biscayne Bay a man who escaped slavery, an African chieftain, or a marketing ploy that went viral?
Everyone has to learn about sex somehow. Today, billions of people are learning about it from porn.
A philosophical debate spanning creation, free will, and a sneaky teapot.
“The Man in the High Castle” may be the most beloved alternate history book, but it is not the most historically accurate.
We rightly celebrate Winston Churchill as one of the world’s greatest leaders — but for all the wrong reasons.
This collection of learning and development quotes serves as a reminder of the meaning and purpose behind this important work.
Once the initial blaze of heat dissipated, the constituent particles of atoms were free to bind.
Research suggests that emotional intelligence is more vital for success than IQ.
Solving difficult visual puzzles seems to help the brain “rewire” itself by forming new neural pathways.