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Known as the Great Oxygenation Event, Earth froze over as oxygen accumulated in our atmosphere, nearly driving all life extinct.
Google’s “Genie” could be used to create a wide range of interactive environments for more than just games.
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder has been a controversial diagnosis since it was first described, back in the 1940s.
More than 90% of ticks that bit treated volunteers were dead within 24 hours.
Plagues, war, and genocide were literally frozen in time.
Dennis Klatt developed trailblazing text-to-speech systems before losing his own voice to cancer.
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“You’re not meant to understand what I just said, because I don’t understand what I just said…” Physicist Brian Cox on one of the most complex theories in space science.
First derived by Emmy Noether, for every symmetry a theory possesses, there's an associated conserved quantity. Here's the profound link.
Volcanologists warn that magma-filled vents evolve over time, leading to an underestimation of the number that might erupt — especially those capable of the biggest explosions
During the industrial era the cost of artificial light fell off a cliff — and the road to illumination was paved with ingenuity and slaughter.
The challenges of setting out in a new direction can be overwhelming — but we can learn to navigate the inflection moments.
A great many cosmic puzzles still remain unsolved. By embracing a broad and varied approach, particle physics heads toward a bright future.
An excerpt from “Memory,” a primer on human memory, its workings, feats, and flaws, by two leading psychological researchers.
Explore data on electric car sales and stocks worldwide.
Autocrats like Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin fear democracy, yet go to great lengths to present themselves as democratic leaders.
Marketing expert Jonah Berger explains how simple tweaks to your word use can have a huge impact on team communication.
Lasers, mirrors, and computational advances can all work together to push ground-based astronomy past the limits of our atmosphere.
Ethan Mollick, associate professor at the Wharton School, explains why we have to crack the machine-buddy problem.
Even if you aren't in the path of totality, you can still use the solar eclipse to measure how long it takes the Moon to orbit Earth.
For human-centered leadership to achieve a “tipping point," people, productivity, and profits must be aligned.