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Lord Kelvin is thought to have said there was nothing new to discover in physics. His real view was the opposite.
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Dr. Temple Grandin shares how we can unlock the hidden gifts of neurodivergent minds.
According to Harvard career advisor Gorick Ng, this time-saving system can help us reclaim our work-life sanity.
Although mammals may be the dominant form of life today, we're relative newcomers on planet Earth. Here's our place in natural history.
On the morning of April 20, 1961, all conditions were "go" for an attempt at free flight. A man was on standby with a fire extinguisher. Just in case.
In the infant Universe, particle physics reigned supreme.
Sam Smith — founder and former CEO of finnCap Group — argues that a culture of empathy will help superscale any business.
For billions of years on Earth, life was limited to simple unicellular, non-differentiated organisms. In a mere flash, that changed forever.
A deep dive into the chaotic journey of star formation.
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Psychologist Daniel Goleman on how to train your brain with just ten minutes a day.
Known as the Great Oxygenation Event, Earth froze over as oxygen accumulated in our atmosphere, nearly driving all life extinct.
Google’s “Genie” could be used to create a wide range of interactive environments for more than just games.
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder has been a controversial diagnosis since it was first described, back in the 1940s.
More than 90% of ticks that bit treated volunteers were dead within 24 hours.
Plagues, war, and genocide were literally frozen in time.
Dennis Klatt developed trailblazing text-to-speech systems before losing his own voice to cancer.
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“You’re not meant to understand what I just said, because I don’t understand what I just said…” Physicist Brian Cox on one of the most complex theories in space science.
First derived by Emmy Noether, for every symmetry a theory possesses, there's an associated conserved quantity. Here's the profound link.
Volcanologists warn that magma-filled vents evolve over time, leading to an underestimation of the number that might erupt — especially those capable of the biggest explosions
During the industrial era the cost of artificial light fell off a cliff — and the road to illumination was paved with ingenuity and slaughter.