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France is split in two by its very own "desert," the Empty Diagonal. The area’s depopulation is fairly recent, and Paris is to blame.
∆G = ∆H – T∆S is one of the most abstract formulas in science, but it is also one of the most important. Without it, life cannot exist.
Life arose on Earth very early on. After a few billion years, here we are: intelligent and technologically advanced. Where's everyone else?
In the most extreme cases, spiraling prices can lead to a collapse in a currency’s value.
Even if you or I will never actually visit these distant worlds, we now know they exist. They should fill us with wonder.
Digital currencies are set to upend paper currencies, but it likely won't be the decentralized utopia some hope it will be.
Driving Teslas and planting trees are nice, but methane reduction, industrial efficiency, carbon removal, and a moderate carbon tax are the most efficient ways to fight climate change.
How can you "touch the Sun" if you've always been inside the solar corona, yet will never reach the Sun's photosphere?
Harnessing the power of emotional intelligence in the workplace can improve both employee and operational performance.
Astrophysicists once believed in a static Universe, containing only the Milky Way galaxy. Science definitively proved otherwise.
Successful constructive criticism is as much about mindset as methods.
Society incorrectly blamed a "population bomb” for problems that had other causes. A wrong diagnosis produces ineffective solutions.
A newly discovered “ultrahot Jupiter” has the shortest orbit of any known gas giant.
From exoplanets to supermassive black holes to the first stars and galaxies, Webb will show us the Universe as we've never seen it before.
The number of people with whom we interact is highest around 40, but then things change substantially after that.
Personality is not set in stone. If you don’t like some aspect of it, you can work to change it — "fake it till you make it."
Many of his criticisms ring true today.
Many of the furniture giant’s products are named after Swedish locations. Not everyone is happy about that.
After more than two decades of precision measurements, we've now reached the "gold standard" for how the pieces don't fit.
Tusks suddenly became a liability, even though in natural circumstances, tusks are very useful.