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As early as we've been able to identify them, the youngest galaxies seem to have large supermassive black holes. Here's how they were made.
The ominous cloud of acid rain hasn't vanished but rather drifted toward the developing world.
A basement renovation project led to the archaeological discovery of a lifetime: the Derinkuyu Underground City, which housed 20,000 people.
For 550 million years, neutral atoms blocked the light made in stars from traveling freely through the Universe. Here's how it then changed.
As wind power grows around the world, so does the threat the turbines pose to wildlife. From simple fixes to high-tech solutions, new approaches can help.
Wolfgang Pauli was a brilliant, well-liked physicist and a scathing critic of balderdash.
We each have the same 24 hours in the day. How will you spend yours?
Even after the first stars form, those overdense regions gravitationally attract matter and also merge. Here's how they grow into galaxies.
Teller and Sagan debated fiercely over nuclear proliferation. But was the conflict as personal as it was intellectual for Teller?
A volley of new insights reignites the debate over whether our choices are ever truly our own.
Many conversations start awkwardly and derail from there, but a few simple techniques can put them back on track.
The first stars in the Universe were made of pristine material: hydrogen and helium alone. Once they die, nothing escapes their pollution.
When battles raged in ancient cities, their rocks blazed so brightly that they could be reoriented according to Earth's magnetic field.
Along with obsidian that dazzled scientists in Canada.
Frontier, the ORNL supercomputer, used machine learning to perform 9.95 quintillion calculations per second.
How to say, "In many ways, Proust is similar to Joyce" and get away with it.
The corporate unicorn was yesterday — now we should consider the wisdom of black and white stripes.
Between the hedonic and eudaimonic life, there's a happy medium to be found.
Omer Bartov, who spent decades studying the unspeakable horrors of genocide, shares how his studies have impacted his own mental health.