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Singapore is a breeding ground of truly green buildings.
3mins
Former Harvard professor and best-selling author Todd Rose explains the problem with prestigious colleges and how the future of higher ed could be bright.
Stand Together
Protein fibrils accumulate in the brain during neurodegeneration. Cryo-electron microscopy has now uncovered fibrils of an unexpected protein.
And debate over it started soon after.
Astronomers in 2017 caught an image of a supermassive black hole in a galaxy far, far away. Doing it in our own galaxy is a huge milestone.
Were Hitler’s SS henchmen willing executioners fueled by racial propaganda or mindless servants vying for promotions?
After years of analysis, the Event Horizon Telescope team has finally revealed what the Milky Way's central black hole looks like.
In Sun-like stars, hydrogen gets fused into helium. In the Big Bang, hydrogen fusion also makes helium. But they aren't close to the same.
Paintings played an important role in these ancient civilizations. Unfortunately, pigment is not nearly as durable as marble.
The apes taught sign language didn't understand what they were doing. They were merely "aping" their caretakers.
The Spanish language has the ability to minimize and exaggerate by the simple addition of a suffix.
Why do some corporate training programs fail? Here are five reasons.
To reap the benefits of digital technologies, we must contend with their addictive designs.
4mins
Our world would be impossible without quantum mechanics — but we still don’t have a narrative of how it works.
John Templeton Foundation
Drop sodium in water, and a violent, even explosive reaction will occur. But quantum physics is needed to explain why.
We have long thought that Pluto was completely frozen solid, but the discovery of cryovolcanoes challenges that assumption.
Learning another language might make you richer, sexier, and smarter. Why not try it?