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What was the universe like one-trillionth of a second after the Big Bang? Science has an answer.
Though gloomy and dense, Russian literature is hauntingly beautiful, offering a relentlessly persistent inquiry into the human experience.
We spend much of our early years learning arithmetic and algebra. What's the use?
The largest moon in our Solar System, often overlooked, is a water-rich world. Does that mean life? Here on Earth, life took hold very early on in our planet’s history, and […]
A socially minded franchise model makes money while improving society.
Fintech companies are using elements of video games to make personal finance more fun. But does it work, and what are the risks?
The brain of an ancient bird offers clues to the survival of its modern-day relatives.
Scientists discover surviving viruses in 15,000-year-old glacier ice on the Tibetan Plateau in China.
The eastern inner core located beneath Indonesia's Banda Sea is growing faster than the western side beneath Brazil.
Only the best physical theories outlast the minds that invented them. Throughout the 20th century, a number of discoveries revolutionized our Universe. The discovery of the interior structure of atoms as […]
In ancient Greece, the Olympics were never solely about the athletes themselves.
A new brain imaging study explored how different levels of the brain's excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmitters are linked to math abilities.
For the ancients, hospitality was an inviolable law enforced by gods and priests and anyone else with the power to make you pay dearly for mistreating a stranger.
We just observed the first ‘lunar formation’ in an exoplanetary system. This one image, above, is the first to show moons actively forming around a planet. This colourful image shows […]
While we can see many solar storms coming, some are "stealthy." A new study shows how to detect them.
Fear that new technologies are addictive isn't a modern phenomenon.
The Inglehart-Welzel World Cultural map replaces geographic accuracy with closeness in terms of values.
A study finds that baby mammals dream about the world they are about to experience to prepare their senses.