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Many suspicious deaths of both humans and pets have been solved with the help of insects.
Practically all of the matter we see and interact with is made of atoms, which are mostly empty space. Then why is reality so… solid?
The DART mission tested whether it's possible to deflect an asteroid by crashing something into it.
"Even with my training, I still got insights from the book’s descriptions. That’s how good Carroll is at explaining physics."
More than half of Americans feel anxious over their financial situation.
Million Stories
From Aristotle's lazy cosmology to Immanuel Kant's "scientific" racism, great minds are not immune to very bad ideas.
Are you unhappy with how various events in your life turned out? Perhaps, in a parallel Universe, things worked out very differently.
Urban legends help personify the anxieties that arise from living in a modern city.
How much can something change and still be the same thing?
Do we still remember what we learned in the 1940s?
If measuring eLearning ROI is so important, why aren’t more organizations doing it?
How many tins of beans make a stockpile, and when does a basement become a bunker?
Today’s careers don’t offer a clear path forward, but the rewards can be worth more than a gold watch at retirement.
9mins
You can’t predict success. But according to minds like Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michio Kaku & more, you can hot wire it.
The Universe gravitates so that normal matter and General Relativity alone can't explain it. Here's why dark matter beats modified gravity.
Instead of worshipping Yahweh, the devotees were perhaps dedicated to Mars and Jupiter.
The researchers suggest that their results demonstrate intelligence in silico.
We are not yet at the point where quantum communications can be deployed to secure the internet, but we might not be far off.
If you believe that you're perfect, then somebody else must be responsible for your failures.