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Philosophy
Examine life’s biggest questions, from ethics to existence, with curiosity and critical thinking.
A group of prominent scientists shares how research has changed them.
Find your wallet or keys — or a nuclear submarine.
Climate activists' brand of iconoclasm is far removed from the Beeldenstorm that swept medieval Europe.
"Tristram Shandy" trolled its way to fame.
Virtually all the statistical methods researchers commonly use assume potential mating partners decide who they will have children with based on a roll of the dice.
Like Dua Lipa, he had to create new rules.
We'll never be able to extract any information about what's inside a black hole's event horizon. Here's why a singularity is inevitable.
Surely they can't be worse…can they?
Mahāyāna is the most popular type of Buddhism in the world today.
There are different types of atheism and atheists. In general, they can be classified as the non-religious, the non-believers, and agnostics.
A researcher explains a little-known niche within modern physics: animal collective behavior.
These ten maps provide a fascinating insight into the impact that soccer (sorry, football) has had worldwide.
The quantum world is one in which rules that are completely foreign to our everyday experience dictate bizarre behavior.
You only have 4,000 weeks of life. Use them wisely.
"All moments past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist."
Is science for everyone, or just the morally upright?
We cannot afford to dream about living on other worlds while we continue to destroy ours.
You don't have to be an emperor to apply these rules to daily living.