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Trace how culture, power, and ideas shape societies across time.
Deep underwater, temperatures are close to freezing and the pressure is 1,000 times higher than at sea level.
If you're a massless particle, you must always move at light speed. If you have mass, you must go slower. So why aren't any neutrinos slow?
Darwin missed an amazing example of evolution.
Studies show talk therapy works, but experts disagree about how it does so. Finding the answer could help professionals and patients.
While ticker tape synesthesia was first identified in the 1880s, new research looks at this unique phenomenon — and what it means for language comprehension.
In a state of "hyperwar," accidents or unexpected AI decisions could lead to widespread devastation before humans could intervene.
Unless you confront your theory with what's actually out there in the Universe, you're playing in the sandbox, not engaging in science.
There's a link between dark personality traits and breaches of battlefield ethics.
The Black, Caspian, and Aral Seas are the last surviving fragments of a body of water that stretched from Austria to Turkmenistan.
Democratic freedom, rapturous religion, and newspapers created a hotbed for social experimentation in 19th-century America.
The typical car is parked 95% of the time.
Would you want to live in any of these places?
The Fermi paradox (along with the subsequent Drake equation) is so difficult that even brilliant thinkers can make little dent in it.
Intellectual humility demands that we examine our motivations for holding certain beliefs.
John Templeton Foundation
Dark energy is one of the biggest mysteries in all the Universe. Is there some way to avoid "having to live with it?"
Though ultimately incorrect, the ancient Greek philosophers blazed a conceptual trail for humankind to understand the nature of reality.
How to separate the reality from the conspiracy theory.
Telegrams were the “Twitter of the 1850s and 1860s” — and they elicited the exact same overblown fears as Twitter does today.
An incredible composite image of Pandora's Cluster, Abell 2744, simultaneously showcases both our impressive knowledge and vast ignorance.
We may have discovered alien life already but rejected the evidence too quickly because it seemed false at first glance.