Israel’s buoyant currency, coupled with increased costs for transport and groceries, saw Tel Aviv jump five places from last year.
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Whether or not life exists elsewhere in the Universe, we can be assured of one thing: We are the only human beings in the cosmos.
A century ago, electric cars were common. The fact that they were almost entirely replaced due to the internal combustion engine is a testament to the glacial pace of battery breakthroughs.
The model is almost eight hours ahead of a doctor’s recognition of a patient’s deterioration.
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For relatives who live far apart, holiday rituals may be the glue that holds the family together.
In her 2020 book, “The Alchemy of Us,” Ainissa Ramirez explores how important material inventions shaped the course of human experience.
When three wise men gifted baby Jesus with gold, frankincense, and myrrh, they had no idea one was made from colliding neutron stars.
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The photometric filters for the Vera Rubin Observatory are complete and showcase why they are indispensable for astronomy.
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It’s that time of year when the hours of meticulous wrapping of Christmas toys are viciously undone in seconds by tiny children.
Humanoid robots are coming, and Ameca is designed to be the ideal platform to study human-robot interactions.
Whether NASA likes it or not, humans eventually will be having space sex.
Americans have a lower life expectancy than people in other rich countries despite paying much more for healthcare. We explore the number of factors which might explain this difference.
Just as storylines make sense only when you have the context of the beginning and the end, listeners need to understand the impetus for why the album was even made.
A placebo-controlled study found that oxytocin seems to significantly reduce romantic jealousy among people in intimate relationships.
France is split in two by its very own “desert,” the Empty Diagonal. The area’s depopulation is fairly recent, and Paris is to blame.
∆G = ∆H – T∆S is one of the most abstract formulas in science, but it is also one of the most important. Without it, life cannot exist.
Life arose on Earth very early on. After a few billion years, here we are: intelligent and technologically advanced. Where’s everyone else?
In the most extreme cases, spiraling prices can lead to a collapse in a currency’s value.
Even if you or I will never actually visit these distant worlds, we now know they exist. They should fill us with wonder.
Digital currencies are set to upend paper currencies, but it likely won’t be the decentralized utopia some hope it will be.
Driving Teslas and planting trees are nice, but methane reduction, industrial efficiency, carbon removal, and a moderate carbon tax are the most efficient ways to fight climate change.