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Data centers consume enormous amounts of power, but their steady demand could make the grid more efficient — and lower costs for everyone.
Your energy doesn’t work like a battery — and treating it that way may be why you still feel tired even after a break.
A growing movement is trying to turn energy directly into food — reviving an old dream of escaping the violence and inefficiency of eating.
A Columbia researcher argues that everything from stress to aging comes down to how energy moves through your body.
The famous framework ranks civilizations by energy use — but ignores a critical factor that can halt their progress.
As the global economy moves beyond oil, the strategic importance of the world’s most critical hydrocarbon chokepoint is likely to decline rapidly.
Our obsession with speed and productivity creates unnecessary pressure that quietly fuels burnout and anxiety.
A firsthand look at China’s material progress and clean-tech revolution -- and what could happen if we let an authoritarian state steer AI's future.
When leaders embrace positive personal energy, everyone feels the benefits — in trust, innovation and creativity.
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“10 years ago, my colleagues and I looked at the prognosis for climate change, and it looked pretty hopeless. There really was no way out. But something happened – something good.”
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What if one of our oldest ideas about ancestry is simply wrong? Harvard geneticist David Reich argues that ancient DNA has exposed the myth of purity and uncovered a far messier history of who we are and where we came from.
On cosmic scales, only dark matter (or something equivalent) gives us the Universe we observe. Now, the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect agrees.
Although a star's "birth" is well-defined, it doesn't correspond to an ignition event in its core. Here's how stars are actually born.
Every time a new star forms, there's an opportunity to form planets alongside and around it. How does it happen, and how long does it take?
Jan Morris's biographer confronts the limits of storytelling while trying to capture a life defined by contradiction and reinvention.
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The voice in your head feels like your own, but it’s actually constructed by neurological processes. Three experts explain how this system shapes both perception and identity.
Unlikely Collaborators
"Color" with respect to the strong force is just an analogy. Here's how to understand it without colors, group theory, or any advanced math.
Most L&D pros assume attention comes with the job title. Marketers wake up every day convinced they have to earn it. That gap explains a lot.
From 2004 through 2017, Saturn was imaged many times and from many angles up close by Cassini. This new viral image isn't real; it's AI.
Your sense of self isn’t located in a single part of the brain — it emerges from a complex interplay of cognitive processes that change over time.