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What does it really mean when something is "Dickensian"? Or "Kafkaesque"? Sometimes these words are overused to the point where they lose their meaning. Here's how these and 6 other words got their origin.
An hour away from Area 51 in the Nevada desert, this solar power plant "banks" energy in a way that could be replicated across the world.
Scientists can now virtually reconstruction certain long-dead individuals, without the need for DNA samples from physical remains.
Another week, another wild round of comments from our Facebook audience. Some made us laugh. Some made us cry. Here's the best of the week.
What do our future missions in physics, astronomy, astrophysics and more hold? If you went back in time just 30 years, the world as we it was a completely different place. […]
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Global warming and climate change is already reshaping coastlines due to higher waters. Pretty soon our next big cities will have to be at sea. But how will they make sustainable food?
A new study find a connection between having more testosterone and not liking classical, jazz, or avant-garde music.
Three questions for the designer of a video game in line with the times.
Archeologists find the largest frozen Scythian burial site ever found in Siberia.
Are we looking for life in all the wrong ways, like SETI with smoke signals? A little over 80 years ago, humanity first began broadcasting radio and television signals with enough […]
We talked to a scientist who studies the afterlife and near-death experiences.
People think that stereotypes are true but also that it is not acceptable to admit this and therefore say they are false. Moreover, they say this to themselves too, in inner speech.
A new law in Germany seeks to close the gender pay gap, but it could ultimately prove counterproductive.
To better understand our place in the world, check out these groundbreaking books.
If the bolide had hit just 30 seconds later, we’d be looking at a very different Earth.
Like any stereotype, there are some elements of truth in all of them, but they oversimplify reality and create a lot of roadblocks to healthy collaboration.
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency releases a dazzling map of the earth’s antineutrinos.
Get out of the way expensive facial creams and treatments.
Generating excitement and enthusiasm for a new learning program can be an enormous challenge for any organization. Very few working adults find “going back to school” to be an appealing […]
They’re less than a billion years old. And, thanks to ALMA, they might finally pave the way to understanding how galaxies form. How do galaxies like our Milky Way come to […]