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The pseudoscience phrenology swept the popular imagination, and its practitioners made a mint preying on prejudices, gullibility, and misinformation.
Considering the astronomical occupational risks, life insurance was prohibitively expensive for the first NASA astronauts.
Even with the quantum rules governing the Universe, there are limits to what matter can withstand. Beyond that, black holes are unavoidable.
Serving as the inspiration for the modern horror classic “The Blair Witch Project,” what does our fascination with this unsolvable mystery tell us about our modern psyche?
“The Man in the High Castle” may be the most beloved alternate history book, but it is not the most historically accurate.
The questions about which massive structures to build, and where, are actually very hard to answer. Infrastructure is always about the future: It takes years to construct, and lasts for years beyond that.
How one man’s divine dream became a poultry-shaped reality.
Because the milk was thin and had an unnatural, bluish tint, vendors stirred in additives such as chalk, flour, eggs, and Plaster-of-Paris.
It might seem like science and faith are at war, but the two have a historical synergy that extends back in time for centuries.
Mary Toft staged an elaborate hoax, but the pain was real.
NASA was dangerously cavalier about the dangers of the shuttle launches.
An innovation’s value is found between the technophile’s promises and the Luddite’s doomsday scenarios.
Brian C. Muraresku, New York Times best-selling author of “The Immortality Key,” unpacks ancient evidence for the widespread ritual use of psychoactive plants.
Graphical user interfaces are how most of us interact with computers, from iPhones to laptops. But they were once condemned as making students lazy and destroying the art of writing.
1859’s Carrington event gave us a preview of how catastrophic the Sun could be for humanity. But it could get even worse than we imagined.
The same (former) NASA engineer who previously claimed to violate Newton’s laws is now claiming to have made a warp bubble. He didn’t.
Robinson v. California helped to established a rehabilitative ideal: addiction should be dealt with as a therapeutic matter.
It’s the best-known transcendental number of all-time, and March 14 (3/14 in many countries) is the perfect time to celebrate Pi (π) Day!
A Carrington-magnitude event would kill millions, and cause trillions of dollars in damage. Sadly, it isn’t even the worst-case scenario.
Our Sun will continue to grow, becoming a red giant and then a planetary nebula. Here’s how large it will get.
For centuries, men prevented women from writing music. These classical composers broke with social norms and made their mark on history.
For the fewer than 50 people with this blood type, finding a blood transfusion could be extremely difficult.
One particular revolution was so important, that at least one historian thinks the 20th century officially began in 1914 and ended in 1991.
And either way, is energy or information conserved? When two things in the Universe that “always” occur meet one another, how do you know which one will win? Gravitational waves, […]
The credibility problem facing the biomedical and public health establishment is, at least in part, a product of its own making.
Scientists are befuddled by where the shark gets most of its food.
There are pros and cons to owning a pet as a marginalized individual.