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Explore the discoveries that reveal how the world works, alongside the technologies that extend, reshape, and sometimes challenge what’s possible.
At least one of Earth's creatures is able to survive the vacuum of space.
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Everyone commits this rationality error.
If there are three neutrino species, all with different masses, then how is energy conserved when they oscillate from one flavor to another?
Everything everywhere all at once.
How scientists found out that we live in a cosmic aquarium.
So far, two papers have been retracted, and a third is under investigation. Accusations of plagiarism appear convincing.
We bake pies for Pi Day, so why not celebrate other mathematical achievements.
Many impact craters on Earth have been erased thanks to wind, water, and plate tectonics. But scientists have clever ways to find them.
The first "running machine" — later known as the bicycle — symbolizes a key design idea.
It's the best-known transcendental number of all-time, and March 14 (3/14 in many countries) is the perfect time to celebrate Pi (π) Day!
Social media has made yelling past each other all the easier.
The nature of civilizational threats has changed in a mere decade.
We can't go back to the Big Bang, nor ahead to the heat death of the Universe. Nevertheless, here are today's natural temperature extremes.
"It can truly allow you to see the physical world in ways that were not possible before."
A deadly myth has been manufactured from poor methods and wishful thinking.
1hr 34mins
Master creative thinking in 90 minutes, with expert Tiago Forte.
Civil engineer Martin Lebek has a brilliant plan to redress the world’s phosphorus imbalance.
Somewhere out there in the Universe is the heaviest neutron star, and elsewhere lies the lightest black hole. Where's the line between them?
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The formula for rational thinking explained by Steven Pinker.
Two very different ideas, wormholes and quantum entanglement, might be fundamentally related. What would "ER = EPR" mean for our Universe?