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Trace how culture, power, and ideas shape societies across time.
After 15 years of monitoring 68 objects known as millisecond pulsars, we've found the Universe's background gravitational wave signal!
A proponent of panpsychism argues moral truth is inherent in consciousness.
We should acknowledge that there are faith-based myths running deep in science's canon.
In history, every major technological advance has been used, for good and bad.
Michael Faraday's 1834 law of induction was the key experiment behind the eventual discovery of relativity. Einstein admitted it himself.
After Albert Einstein’s death in 1955, a pathologist—searching for the secret of genius—removed, dissected, and ultimately stole the mathematician’s brain.
In one experiment, the Viking landers added water to Martian soil samples. That might have been a very bad idea.
A cute mathematical trick can "rescale" the Universe so that it isn't actually expanding. But can that "trick" survive all our cosmic tests?
Is the vast "Khan Khentii Strictly Protected Area" the final resting place of Genghis Khan?
Take a closer look before judging a book by its title.
As the Earth spins and wobbles on its axis and revolves elliptically around the Sun, each day changes from the last. "24 hours" isn't right.
These core teachings make an ideal starting point for exploring Buddhist philosophy.
A photographer captured Bern’s eclectic and charming feline structures.
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University College London professor Brian Klaas exposes the ugly truth about world leaders.
The farther away they get, the smaller distant galaxies look. But only up to a point, and beyond that, they appear larger again. Here’s how.
The truth is out there, but it's probably not in the latest whistleblower's report.
The fear of deep bodies of water may be evolutionarily ingrained.
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Primatologist Frans de Waal inadvertently popularized the term "alpha male." Now, he’s debunking common stereotypes to explain what an "alpha male" really is — empathetic and protective.