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Together, Russia and America sell almost 60% of all weapons traded around the world.
NASA scientists discover what two places in the solar system might have favorable conditions for alien life.
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The story of the world's most successful people is really only half told.
There’s a smallest scale and a shortest time at which physics makes any sense. What sets that limit? “There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.” –Dick […]
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Cut funding to the NEA and PBS? It would be incredibly costly to cut cultural spending.
A chorus of new science is showing that evolution has orchestrated life to leave no room for solos. A grander view of life is revealing higher-level, need-centric relational logic patterns (as in David Haskell’s The Songs of Trees).
Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Joyce Carol Oates on America, idealism, and the shackles we can and can't shake off.
85% of parents undermine their own efforts, nullifying the impact of a time-out.
Between 1990 and 2003, the world saw the completion of one of the biggest international scientific collaborations that led to the creation of the The Human Genome Project. Now, another […]
Biologists discover biofilms cooperating to share food.
From peanuts over petroleum to opium: these are the exports that power global trade
You lose whether you use protons or electrons in your collider, for different reasons. Could the unstable muon solve both problems? “It does not matter how slowly you go as […]
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What's it like to be a minority in America? To find out, read a book written by one.
It was the first time the bomb was deployed in battle, which has the dubious distinction of being the biggest non-nuclear bomb in the American military arsenal.
This could have potential therapeutic applications in anxiety and trauma.
Photographer Craig burrows reveals the secret colors of plants.
Dr. Gottman, a psychologist who studies relationships, explains the 5:1 rule.
Alpha Centauri A and B are just 4.37 light years away. Do they have planets around them? And possibly life? We just might find out! “Resources exist to be consumed. And […]
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Skepticism has a place, but it's optimists who decide the future, says Kevin Kelly.
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