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Letting nature's expert engineers lead the way.
If you want to have foamy beer inside the comfort of your own home, you need to invest in a special nucleated glass.
Dating of volcanic ash suggests the remains are at least 230,000 years old.
Those that were the best at math didn't even show income satiation — there was no upper limit to how much money could make them happy.
The death of God didn’t strike Nietzsche as an entirely good thing. Without a God, the basic belief system of Western Europe was in jeopardy.
What was once an art form has been drained of color and personality by ruthless algorithms. Can we make chess human again?
The catastrophic birth defect anencephaly affects about 1 in 4,600 pregnancies in the U.S. It is largely preventable with folic acid supplements.
Despite losing most of his extended family to the guillotine, Tocqueville grew up to become a fervent supporter of democratic revolution.
“I need to think about the future. Will you help me?”
Is the Universe finite or infinite? Does it go on forever or loop back on itself? Here's what would happen if you traveled forever.
Since Ukraine originally meant “borderland,” the territory was already a target for several kingdoms.
Besides offering an incredibly cool way to get stuff into space, SpinLaunch promises to reduce the cost of a launch by 20-fold.
The most feared sexually transmitted disease (STD) of the last half-millennium was usually named after foreigners, often the French.
Non-Western thought is vast and ancient, so why don't some consider it philosophy?
The inside of every black hole leads to the birth of a new Universe. Could our Universe have arisen from one?
Flow occurs when a task’s challenge is balanced with one’s skill.
More and more business leaders are starting to lean on learning and development for support in facing essential challenges.
From succubi to aliens, stories of abductions or other unsettling encounters have been with us for millennia. What explains them?
The road to happiness is indirect and full of frustration.
Admit it: you have no idea why a group of crows is called a murder. Here's why.