“The Man in the High Castle” may be the most beloved alternate history book, but it is not the most historically accurate.
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The chances that a newborn survives childhood have increased from 50% to 96% globally.
Contrary to common experience, not everything needs a medium to travel through. Overcoming that assumption removes the need for an aether.
Recasting the iconic Carrington Event as just one of many superstorms in Earth’s past, scientists reveal the potential for even more massive eruptions from the sun.
We have become the greatest threat to ourselves and to life on this planet. We need a set of agreed-upon safeguards to preserve our future.
Creating a culture of innovation requires champions and cheerleaders at every level and in every function within an organization.
In “The History of Western Philosophy,” Bertrand Russell made it clear whose thinking he admired — and whose thinking he didn’t.
The pandemic and the Great Resignation fed into a perfect storm of inflation — and some restaurateurs cleaned up.
Back in 1990, we hadn’t discovered a single planet outside of our Solar System. Here are 10 facts that would’ve surprised every astronomer.
Striking differences in the composition of the gut microbiome suggest that fermented food could help those suffering from anorexia.
Forgetting and misremembering are the building blocks of creativity and imagination.
His greatest speeches were loaded with empathy.
Neuroscience suggests that it’s way better to give than to receive — and high performing people agree.
The nearby, bright star Fomalhaut had the first optically imaged planetary candidate. Using JWST’s eyes, astronomers found so much more.
The “island rule” hypothesizes that species shrink or supersize to fill insular niches not available to them on the mainland.
May 8, 2023
Over thousands of years, a few men and women have had groundbreaking ideas that changed the course of history. Many others have contributed to modernizing civilization. This crossword features some of them.
Glimpse into the ancient Maya empire through the writing of its own inhabitants.
A panel of healthcare professionals much preferred responses that came from the chatbot in a recent study.
These composers channeled the horror of the Holocaust and Hiroshima while honoring those who lived through it.
They’re the most common type of exoplanet known today, and many astronomers have called them “super-habitable.” None of that is true.
The discovery has enormous implications for the development of novel anti-anxiety medications.
As a physician, John Pringle helped reinvent hygiene; as a husband, he destroyed a woman’s life with his abuse.
As the stream of AI-generated art turns into a deluge, NFTs could become a cornerstone of the Virtual Renaissance.
Mars, the red planet, was a world we knew almost nothing about until our first spacecraft visited it. In just ~50 years, how far we’ve come!
Rapamycin is potentially the most powerful anti-aging drug ever discovered. However, due to its unlucky history, few know of it.
In the spirit of the 1969 moon landing, we now have a golden opportunity to pursue “nondisruptive” creative solutions.
Billy was a local celebrity in the early 1900s. And he might have been a murderer.
Thinking about the problem of meaning is unsettling because it introduces us to a list of solutions that all feel a bit insane.
I think, therefore I am (rich).