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Great ideas in philosophy often come in dense packages. Then there is where the work of Marcus Aurelius.
Star production peaked three billion years after the Big Bang.
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Zoologist Lucy Cooke explains why humans are totally wrong about panda sex, and why captive breeding backfires.
The expanding Universe really is accelerating, and no dusty scenario can explain it. 20 years ago, our understanding of the Universe underwent a revolution. For generations, we had known the Universe […]
It was captured by the Parker Solar Probe, which is currently studying the star.
Childhood trauma can affect a child's brain in dramatic ways for the rest of their lives.
When it comes to the workplace, more diversity means more money.
The Geminid meteor shower grows more intense with every year, and it's expected to be particularly bright in 2018.
The rocket reached an altitude of 51 miles, meeting the Federal Aviation Administration's definition of space.
MIT researchers have discovered how to turn wasp venom into an antibiotic.
The potential of blockchain might have been ruined for you by your unemployed cousin who wears Balenciagas to Thanksgiving dinner and told you to enter into the cryptocurrency market at […]
Whether or not there are tropical islands in 50 years might depend on whether or not we can eat fewer hamburgers.
Door-to-door brush salesman Norman Hall had a unique way of explaining what his day is like to Dan Pink, author of Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. Hall […]
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Eboo Patel explains how America's political philosophy broke the democratic mold.
Charles Koch Foundation
It’s either a cosmic mystery or a terribly mundane mistake. The Universe is expanding, and every scientist in the field agrees with that. The observations overwhelmingly support that straightforward conclusion, and […]
The photos were taken the same day as Russian cosmonauts investigated a mysterious hole discovered in one of the craft.
"Didn't you see me Googling 'baby not moving?'" Gillian Brockell wrote a heartbreaking open letter to big tech companies imploring them to change the ways they target ads to users.
Matter from the first few microseconds after the Big Bang.
One cardinal is accused of covering up sexual abuse. The other faces criminal charges in Australia.