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It's not demons. It's not the undead. The explanation is actually way more boring that you'll ever guess.
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How does humanity arrive at great ideas? Simple: we take already great ideas and just arrive at even greater ideas.
Think the future isn't already here with us? Think again!
The probe, no larger than a car, will be the closest a man-made object has ever gotten to the sun. We will be able to study and see it like we’ve never seen it before.
More than 20,000 people have signed a petition for Batman, one of Turkey's 81 provinces, to be re-shaped so its borders resemble the Bat-Signal.
Perhaps energy isn’t conserved at all in an expanding Universe. If you have a Universe full of stuff — whether that’s atoms, dark matter, radiation, neutrinos, or anything else — it’s virtually impossible to […]
Michio Kaku tells the story of a bet between Thomas Edison and Henry Ford that Elon Musk is now fulfilling.
What are the health and environmental effects of electric night light?
When you’re a Hasidic woman in Borough Park, Brooklyn, starting an ambulance corps is a radical act. Documentary filmmaker Paula Eiselt on the push-pull of identity and cultural change in her film 93Queen.
A new report from the American Meteorological Society shows that Earth’s atmosphere had the highest levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in 2017 than it's had in the past 800,000 years.
A new study shows that psychopaths have a hard time telling when someone's genuinely distressed, and that they don't seem to care much either way.
Scientists claim that huge rogue waves account for the disappearance of ships in the Bermuda Triangle.
Lab-grown lungs have been successfully placed in pigs for the first time. How long until we get to humans?
There is a point when you have enough of what you need, says author, speaker, and social innovator Vicki Robin.
It’s one of the biggest assumptions we’ve ever made about the Universe. Here’s why it’s wrong. Almost everyone has heard the story of the Big Bang. But if you ask anyone, […]
Other forms of expression—nude dancing, flag burning, donating to political campaigns—are protected by the First Amendment. Why not computer code?
Charter schools and the privatization of education have an adversary in Akron. And in the NBA.
Acetyl-L-carnitine has long been recognized as important for metabolism of fatty acids in mitochondria. Its newly discovered link to depression could one day change the lives of millions.
An online conspiracy theory about President Donald Trump is now affecting people and politics in real life.
A new study suggests that viewing materialistic media—even for a minute—can influence people to harbor stronger anti-welfare attitudes.