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"The process of systematizing, correcting errors, finding approximations, and making them work as civil systems that was what really drove me to start looking at human calculation and what was the foundation that it laid for the modern computer age."
Even in an expanding Universe, we expect both redshifted and blueshifted galaxies. But nearly every one we see is redshifted. Here's why.
Labels help your brain make sense of a complex world, but when self-attached, those same labels can convince you that you're unable to grow.
Today, nostalgia is somewhat kitsch. Back then, it was something to be feared.
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"It's this modern idea of doing voluntary discretionary, physical activity for the sake of health and fitness."
Two main contributors enabled our modern global positioning system (GPS): Albert Einstein and Gladys West. Here's how she made it happen.
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"By keeping people biologically younger, we can enjoy a longer health span, a longer period of healthy life where we're active, where we're happy, where we can engage in our hobbies, and play with our grandkids and great grandkids."
The Sun often produces solar flares and coronal mass ejections, but a rare solar radiation storm made the 2026's first great auroral show.
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AI expert and insitro CEO Daphne Koller shares her insights about developing the vision and strategy needed to optimize your enterprise AI deployments.
Researchers built a model that behaves like a brain. Without being trained on neural data, the model produced a peculiar signal — one that was later discovered in actual brain activity.
These cultural lies make normal struggle feel like failure. A habit of experimentation makes it feel like progress.
Tara Narula shares how journalist Richard Cohen challenged conventional ideas about illness, identity, and strength while living with MS.
Many view the development of fringe, alternative theories as a useless waste of time. But when they can be tested, it shows what reality is.
AI will shape the future of work, but human leadership will decide whether that future is good — and happiness should be the touchstone.
Three virtues every good leader must develop.
With unprecedented resolution, wavelength sensitivity, and light-gathering power, JWST reveals our cosmos like no other observatory ever.
People don't want you to buy their stories — they want you to listen to them.
Gravitational lenses arise when foreground masses and background light sources properly align. Einstein rings are rare, but crosses abound.
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"This will help people take meaningful steps to slow the rate of aging and increase what we call their health span or their kind of time of life expectancy free from disease."
A tour of the literary cover-ups, extraterrestrials, and cryptids lurking in the bookish backwoods.