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History & Society
Trace how culture, power, and ideas shape societies across time.
These landscapes — of geographical differences in head shapes — have vanished from acceptable science (and cartography).
Philosophy can focus on some dull topics. Luckily, some thinkers have spent lots of time on the philosophy of sex
Grief never ends. There is no closure, but there are things we can do to mitigate the feeling of loss.
Einstein's laws of gravity have been challenged many times, but have always emerged victorious. Could wide binary stars change all that?
Meet the masterful con-men who impressed the great and the good despite the astonishing fiction of their very existence.
Now that the DSM lists severe hoarding as a disorder apart from OCD, psychologists are asking what explains its prevalence.
Almost all royal lines try to legitimize their rule with legendary origin stories. Here are five of the strangest examples.
Metaphors like the Great Chain of Being can lead people to misunderstand evolution and humanity’s place in the web of life.
Is LK-99 truly a room temperature superconductor? These 4 tests, none of which have yet been passed, will separate fact from fiction.
In polarized times, our shared cellular origin can unite us in solidarity and awe — from the embryonic scale to the grandest cosmic perspective.
The National Ignition Facility just repeated, and improved upon, their earlier demonstration of nuclear fusion. Now, the true race begins.
There were at least eight other human species, some of whom existed for far longer than we have. Who were they?
From when its light was emitted, the El Gordo galaxy cluster might be the most massive object in all of existence. Here's how JWST sees it.
The Te’omim Cave in the Jerusalem Hills is filled with skulls and oil lamps — objects a new study says may have been used in dark rituals.
Fossil Cycad National Monument held America’s richest deposit of petrified cycadeoid plants, until it didn’t.
How the simple act of watching twilight can radically transform our perception of the world and our role within it.
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It will be immensely difficult for the Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains to protect their competitive edge if they do not pursue a radical change.
Recent claims put LK-99 as the first room temperature, ambient pressure superconductor ever. Has the game changed, or is it merely hype?
Psychopathic tendencies may be present to some extent in all of us. New research is reframing this often sensationalized and maligned set of traits and finding some positive twists.