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CERN's Large Hadron Collider superseded Fermilab's TeVatron in 2008, but now nears the end of its run. The ambitious FCC project comes next.
Anxiety feels like a malfunction. Evolutionarily speaking, it's one of your most sophisticated features.
A white rabbit appears up ahead. What do you do?
At and beyond the current frontiers of knowledge, many physicists have strongly held opinions. Can surveys point the way to breakthroughs?
Who do you want to be today?
Feedback only feels high-stakes when you've been saving it up.
America’s first Gilded Age reveals how concentrated economic power erodes democracy and offers a warning as similar forces reemerge today.
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In goal setting, Chris Bailey argues the problem isn't discipline; it's the system itself.
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When we see loneliness as a kind of failure, it becomes damaging. When we see it as information, it becomes actionable. A psychologist, a social health scientist, and a psychiatrist explain.
Unlikely Collaborators
The original idea of the Big Bang was synonymous with a singularity: a point of zero volume. In this Universe, things never got that small.
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Astrophysicist Hakeem Oluseyi takes us from the quantum realm to the cosmological and out to the multiverse, answering physics’ most profound questions.
Theoretical physics is notorious for wild ideas that seem, at first, to be nonsensical fantasies. That's where the tooth fairy comes in.
Animal-to-human organ transplants promise a future where survival no longer depends on another person’s death.
Vague predictions and post hoc revisions help astrology feel meaningful, even while it fails empirical testing.
Why we shouldn't necessarily outsource our thinking to dead people.
Astronomers study our cosmic history through stellar and galactic archaeology. But we can't conduct archaeology in space. At least, not yet.
Agreeable people may be a pleasure to be around, but they also have a harder time walking away from a bad deal.
Light pollution now steals a pristine night sky from the majority of humanity. The rise of LED lighting, primarily since 2014, is to blame.
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We used to think human migration was a simple branching tree. Ancient DNA proved it's something far stranger. Harvard Geneticist David Reich explains.
Today, in the here-and-now, a full 13.8 billion years have elapsed since the start of the hot Big Bang. But would that be true for everyone?