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When Cameroon's Lakes Monoun and Nyos exploded, they released clouds of carbon dioxide that suffocated everything in its wake.
Before anesthetics, some patients would die of the pain on the operating table.
If your computer crashes, it might be due to a star that exploded somewhere in the Universe millions of years ago.
What creates our private, inner universes is still a mystery.
If you can model anything in the Universe with an equation, mathematics is how you get the solution(s). Physics must go a step further.
From questionable shipwrecks to outright attacks, the Sentinelese clearly don't want to be bothered.
The minimum wage is a popular policy, but it's not the only way governments have tried to help workers secure a decent living.
"Strategic ambiguity" has long been the West's strategy on Taiwan.
Quantum mechanics forces us to toss out the old, reliable ways in which we make sense of our everyday reality.
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Enlightenment is a traditionally mystical and slippery concept, but when it is subjected to the rigors of empirical analysis, there is a lot to be learned about our brains and ourselves.
John Templeton Foundation
From black holes to dark energy to chances for life in the Universe, our cosmic journey to understand it all is just getting started.
Managers who are able to identify and understand dark salespeople can manipulate them to benefit the company. What could be more Machiavellian than that?
The Arabic word fatwa can mean “explanation” or “clarification.”
The Rubbee X requires almost no setup and is far cheaper than a brand new e-bike.
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Pro-athletes are entertainers. Being healthy means something else.
Looking at ourselves in a mirror — or on a video call — shapes our sense of self. But what you see is not what others see.
Is it deliberate fraud or just bad research?
The synthetic cartilage was made from cellulose fibers — the stuff found in wood — mixed with a goo called polyvinyl alcohol.
