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In 2025, two cleverly designed studies claimed to find evidence of strange objects orbiting Earth — years before humanity had put anything in space.
"Publish or perish" has become an academic cliché. But the biggest casualty isn't researchers — it's scientific discovery itself.
John Templeton Foundation
The double-slit experiment, hundreds of years after it was first performed, still holds the key mystery at the heart of quantum physics.
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Terence Tao breaks math down to six essential ideas: numbers, algebra, geometry, probability, analysis, and dynamics.
The sky and oceans are both blue. It's not because one reflects the other. Science explains them both, but for very different reasons.
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Purpose is not only a question of meaning. For philosopher Alan Love, it is also a question of life, agency, function, and scientific method.
There are two rival ideas to try to make sense of the Universe: dark matter or modified gravity. Can a new cosmic test settle the issue?
The newest find recovers the earliest merger in galactic history: just 2 billion years after the Big Bang. Here’s what we know today.
Short fiction is powerful because of its constraints. By compressing language and time, it achieves a singular intensity the novel cannot.
In an age of information overload, reliable sources are easy to access but often difficult to identify.
Charisma isn’t a fixed trait reserved for a lucky few — it’s a set of learnable behaviors.
Recent evidence could indicate the Universe doesn't expand evenly. Does that change our expected fate: Big Rip, Big Crunch, or Heat Death?
1859's Carrington event gave us a preview of how catastrophic the Sun could be for humanity. But it could get even worse than we imagined.
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Every marriage’s disintegration is marked by the same four warning signs that researchers John and Julie Gottman can spot before a couple finishes their first sentence.
It's both easier and more beneficial than you may think.
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Communication is hard. Jefferson Fisher reminds us that no matter what you need to say, say it with control, say it with confidence, and say it to connect.
Time isn't the same for everyone, even on Earth. Flying around the world gave Einstein the ultimate test. No one is immune from relativity.
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Science used to be broad because so few people could afford to do it. Now that more people can participate, the structures need to evolve too. Philosopher Alan Love explains.
We assume there's no preferred frame of reference in the Universe, and that light behaves the same in all directions. What if we're wrong?
The medicines already existed. The challenge was reaching people in time. Muso’s model of proactive community healthcare is showing what becomes possible when care moves closer to families.
Skoll Foundation