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Philosophy
Examine life’s biggest questions, from ethics to existence, with curiosity and critical thinking.
If words are really only 7% of communication, then why would anyone need to learn a foreign language?
CERN's Large Hadron Collider is the most powerful particle accelerator ever. To go even further, we'll have to overcome something big.
In ~7 billion years, our Sun will run out of fuel and die. So will every star, eventually. Here are the different fates they'll encounter.
How heavy is the mask that you wear?
The mutual distance between well-separated galaxies increases with time as the Universe expands. What else expands, and what doesn't?
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Journalist Steven Kotler on digital immortality and the tech that could keep us “alive,” forever.
The burial spot was found in one of the Herculaneum scrolls charred by Mt. Vesuvius.
The "Shopping Cart Litmus Test" is a popular meme about morality. What does it really reveal about one's character?
Nobody likes the uneasy feeling of being watched — so can there be any workplace benefit to the all-seeing eye?
Author A.J. Jacobs explores how voting has changed since the days of the Founding Fathers — for better and for worse.
IceCube scientists have detected high-energy tau neutrinos from deep space, suggesting that neutrino transformations occur not only in lab experiments but also over cosmic distances.
The Gallup World Poll reveals regional peaks and valleys of happiness across all of the continents.
When high-anxiety situations arise in the workplace, we tend to react by fighting, fleeing, freezing, or fawning — but there’s a hidden fifth option.
The most iconic "dark nebula" of all lights up under JWST's infrared gaze. Here's what's newly discovered inside.
A battle between different kinds of love.
Voltaire's wonderful satire, Candide, remains a useful work-life antidote to bogus platitudes and naive optimism.
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Humanity has two giant collisions to thank for its existence, explains biologist Sean B. Carroll.
Holograms preserve all of an object's 3D information, but on a 2D surface. Could the holographic Universe idea lead us to higher dimensions?
In general relativity, white holes are just as mathematically plausible as black holes. Black holes are real; what about white holes?
Digital analyses of Enlightenment-era letters are teaching us a thing or two about Locke, Voltaire, and others.