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50 years ago, Apollo 9 launched. Without it, we never would’ve landed on the Moon. The Apollo program is most famous for its greatest achievement: taking humanity to the Moon. It […]
It's almost time to 'spring forward.'
How prone you are to boredom plays an unexpected role.
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Here's how to set clear expectations about household management.
Over 100 new pages of Einstein's writings, including long-lost calculations, have been made public.
The American Museum of Natural History presents the new, more accurate T. rex.
These powerful habits from six powerful people are worth taking to heart.
Globally 72 percent of scientific researchers are men. But there are some exceptions.
What gets a wolf or a pigeon up in the morning? No offense to wolves or to pigeons, but it’s probably not the desire to make the world a better […]
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Here's why many 80 year olds are probably happier than you.
Gravity gets weaker as the distance squared. But gravitational waves only get weaker as the distance. Why? One of the things we often just accept about the world is that […]
Have sexual interludes obscured the path to love?
Just because the keto diet is an effective weight-loss tool doesn't mean everyone should try it.
After docking at the International Space Station, the unmanned capsule executed a fiery and carefully choreographed return to Earth.
The answer can be found several thousand years ago, in the Roman city of Cyrene.
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Human value is tied to the job market. Will automation be a full-on crisis?
Faraday’s law of induction was set forth in 1834, and was the experiment that led Einstein to discover relativity. When we think about Einstein and the theory of relativity, all […]
More vaccine-autism facts for the fact-averse.
It would be nice if we lived in a world where we could just do a good job and bosses would pay everyone what they’re really worth, and close the […]