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The excavation most career advice skips.
Historian Jess Venner discusses how “critical fabulation” can help reveal the lived experiences of Pompeii’s voiceless residents.
The soils of "managed forests" can take decades to rebuild the carbon stocks and microbial communities found in undisturbed forests.
Only nearby objects appear to the naked eye. With telescopes of all types, especially in space, we've smashed those records many times over.
Triton is Neptune's largest moon today, but it was once the undisputed king of the Kuiper belt. Here's why the outer solar system matters.
Author Daniel Coyle has spent a lot of time around people with exceptional social habits. These are the habits that stood out.
Banded mongooses highlight the deep link between cooperation and conflict in nature.
There's a lot of room in interplanetary, interstellar, and intergalactic space, but just how low the densities go is truly mind-boggling.
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Author Chris Bailey breaks down the "intention stack" and the underrated role of values alignment in follow-through.
A counterpoint to zero-sum thinking from Japan.
Tourism and environmental threats are shaping the fragile future of these iconic, surprisingly intelligent island predators.
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Optimistic people don’t just “feel happier,” they literally process information differently, at a perceptual level. Three experts explain.
Unlikely Collaborators
Contrary to common experience, not everything needs a medium to travel through. Overcoming that assumption removes the need for an aether.
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Professor Michael Spitzer argues that music is something closer to a biological system, one that was shaping the human body long before we had words for what we were feeling.
A free and happy bird does not pace the room.
Newton's gravitational constant, G, is still known to just 3 significant figures in 2026. New measurements merely highlight our uncertainty.
As mental health diagnoses become more common and expansive, the labels meant to help us understand our suffering may instead oversimplify it.
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Human origins once looked like a simple migration story. According to geneticist David Reich, new evidence keeps turning it into a record of contact, disappearance, and surprise.
In 2006, the IAU defined "planet" for the first time, excluding Pluto and all other dwarf planets. In 2026, is it now time for a change?
Your to-do list isn't a debt to pay off. It's a menu to choose from.