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Most cities reeked of death, defecation, and industrial waste. Still, focusing only on stench means turning a blind eye (or nose) to the many other smells that helped shape human history.
Social media distorts the reality of the public sphere.
The only way to support someone’s success is to understand how they define it.
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An optical telescope with a massive 20-foot (6-meter) mirror has an eye-popping price tag of $11 billion.
Our Universe requires dark matter in order to make sense of things, astrophysically. Could massive photons do the trick?
Fermilab's TeVatron just released the best mass measurement of the W-boson, ever. Here's what doesn't add up.
Time for a status check before watching "Moon Knight."
On forums, “true bitcoiners” didn’t talk about technology or crypto. Instead, they talked about trust and corruption.
There have been some 6,000 Great Lakes shipwrecks, which have claimed an estimated 30,000 lives. These maps show some of them.
Luck doesn’t fall from the sky. It’s about how you position yourself for life’s challenges.
To Vladimir Putin, a young KGB colonel at the time, the decision was a colossal mistake.
Scientists have known blobs existed for a long time, but how they have behaved over Earth’s history has been an open question.
As the skills gap grows, learning and development can help ensure the viability of an organization’s talent well into the future.
Many people perceive the struggle to understand our Universe as a battle between science and God. But this is a false dichotomy.
Chess was once blamed for triggering mental health problems, including suicide and even murder. Today, the same is said of video games.
The results of a 2021 study suggest that the world's most powerful psychedelic may be an underutilized peace-building tool.
The idea of "absolute time" was our default for millennia. But time is relative, as gravity and motion both cause time to dilate.
Psychologist Adrian Furnham has termed this effect the male hubris, female humility problem.
Wander into the deep recesses of the mind and never return the same with these existentialist books.