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Opinion ruined journalism and Facebook killed truth—but there's a way to make it right.
Charles Koch Foundation
We can go to deeper and deeper levels, finding more fundamental quantities as we do. But is there a truly fundamental quantity? What is the Universe, at a fundamental level, […]
Anchorage was rocked by back-to-back earthquakes on Friday morning, prompting a tsunami warning.
There are many ways to posit the fundamental nature of reality.
Over 67,000 trials by the Color Guard can't be wrong.
In order to build a second Earth, we need to look at how the first one was made.
Baby boomers seem to have had an advantage in nearly every financial metric compared to millennials, according to a new study from the Federal Reserve.
As this typewritten map shows, constraints can be freeing.
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America treats the world like a board game. That's a problem.
If particles weren’t also waves, the Sun would never achieve nuclear fusion. Without quantum mechanics, life on Earth would never have come to exist. The greatest source of newly-produced energy in […]
A semi-scientific test of touchscreen kiosks in eight McDonald's restaurants in the U.K. have caused alarm that microbiologists say is unwarranted.
The $480 million contract could lead the company to make more than 100,000 augmented reality headsets for the military.
The Great White North has found a way to provide universal healthcare with more salubrious results and trimmed national costs. Take notes, America.
The particles are able to travel deep into tissue in ways that other treatments simply can't.
One of the most famous experiments in psychology might be completely wrong.