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Our social instincts can lead us to adopt models of desire that might not serve our interests.
There are over 100 known elements in the periodic table. These 8 ways of making them account for every one.
Wireless charging isn't just for phones and laptops. It could also power medical devices like heart implants.
Surface deformation or other signs of an impending explosion may not occur. Instead, supervolcanic eruptions can be much more insidious.
We seem to be wired to calculate not the shortest path but the “pointiest” one, facing us toward our destination as much as possible.
Airless tires are puncture-proof and more environmentally friendly. And Michelin is aiming to get them on your car by 2024.
If used improperly, the metaverse could be more divisive than social media and an insidious threat to society and even reality itself.
Daylight saving time was first implemented during the first world war to take advantage of longer daylight hours and save energy. While this made a difference when we heavily relied on coal […]
Winner takes all, losers die, and participants have no choice but to play.
According to literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin, Dostoevsky's talents were on par with those of William Shakespeare.
These studies are only the tip of the iceberg, with adverse consequence of the time change ranging from student test scores to stock market returns.
The creator of the index called it a public utility for accessing the “vast ocean” of human knowledge.
Battery-powered urban aircraft are well within the bounds of technological reality.
Big dreams and big telescopes are back at last, but everything depends on sufficiently funding NASA, the NSF, and the DOE.
Tighten your ‘thopter seatbelts and get those worm-hooks ready: we're going to unpack the hype surrounding Dune, both the book and the movie.
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Propaganda urges you to mobilize towards something while concealing from you things that you reasonably should think and consider.
Looking with lasers, researchers discovered that many Olmec and Mayan ruins seem to have been constructed from the same blueprint.
Our moral attitudes about sex and drugs share a genetic basis, suggests a recent study that examined the attitudes of more than 5,000 twins.
There's a big difference between the notions of 'false vacuum' and 'true vacuum' states. Here's why we don't want to live in the former.
We pretend to be in control, but we have frighteningly little knowledge upon which to base our life’s decisions.