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There’s some amazing science happening at the South Pole, but some very grandiose claims being made. What’s actually going on? For some of us, the idea of parallel Universes spark our […]
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According to a man that knows more than 20 languages, the key is to start in the middle.
Was the hamburger menu always so ubiquitous?
New research suggests some men identify with a new form of masculinity that values authenticity, domesticity, and holistic self-awareness.
To create wiser adults, add empathy to the school curriculum.
Charles Koch Foundation
A strange weakness in the Earth's protective magnetic field is growing and possibly splitting, shows data.
You think you've had a day where everything that went wrong could? T. rex has you beat.
While building a new airport, construction crews uncover a gigantic collection of ancient bones.
To get a sense of faraway places, these 'atlases' let the locals give you their perspective.
Currently, more than 100 COVID-19 vaccines are being developed worldwide.
Extraterrestrial life should arise fairly easily. But intelligence is another matter entirely. Planet Earth has been around for the past 4.5 billion years or so: about the last third of […]
Sweden tops the ranking for the third year in a row.
Neo's superhuman powers were only inside of The Matrix. The outside world offered a different reality.
What does it mean to "lead without authority"?
Mathematics is the most useful tool we have for understanding the Universe. But it doesn’t answer to anything on its own. At the frontiers of theoretical physics, many of the most […]
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The planet that we are searching for is a little bit smaller and closer than we originally thought.
Inbreeding leads to a problematically small gene pool.
The Demo-2 mission represents a new era for American spaceflight.
Universities claim to prepare students for the world. How many actually do it?
Charles Koch Foundation
Atop certain glaciers are herds of small mossy balls that somehow move together when no one's looking.