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These clocks burn powdered incense along a pre-measured paths, each representing a different amount of time.
"I am not sick at all but everyone around me becomes sick."
Great writing can unveil the criminal psyche better than any other artistic medium.
Those white, marble statues you see in museums all over the world were originally painted with bright colors.
Ultracold gases in the lab could help scientists better understand the universe.
The strange case of cultured ultra-thief Stéphane Breitwieser — who claims “art is my drug” — has divided opinion. Is it Stendhal syndrome?
The richness and variety of America’s food landscape, in a buffet of maps.
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Forensic accountant Kelly Richmond Pope explains how fraud runs rampant — even when businesses don’t intend it.
Back in the 1930s, Fritz Zwicky postulated the existence of dark matter. No one took it seriously until Vera Rubin's work: 40 years later.
Probability, lacking solid theoretical foundations and burdened with paradoxes, was jokingly called the “theory of misfortune.”
There were many similarities, but also some profound differences.
When a whoopsie-daisy just won’t cut it.
Our state of extreme social interconnectedness has rapidly accelerated the rollercoaster pace at which societal confidence may collapse.
Can two planets stably share the same orbit? Conventional wisdom says no, but a look at Saturn's moons might tell a different story.
Mounted on horses and armed with unique, powerful bows, the archers of Genghis Khan inspired terror wherever they rode.
"I thought strangers knew who I was and were whispering about me as I walked by."
We're separating the facts about EVs from the fiction.
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Modern life replaced spirituality with goal-setting — and it’s making us depressed. Here’s how to win back your happiness.
All stars, eventually, run out of fuel and die. Given all the stars we can see and the vast distance to them, are any of them already dead?
The hunt for the elusive particles continues.