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Be famous within five miles.
Mesopotamian beer was not flavored with hops, and it was probably on the thick, porridgey side.
We're overthinking being nice.
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Why should anyone care about the metaverse? Expert Matthew Ball explains what it is, what it isn’t, and why it matters.
No. No no no. Just... no. The JWST has truly blown our scientific minds, but it's a pure crackpot idea that the Big Bang is now disproven.
Unexpected images of galaxies from the James Webb Space Telescope do not disprove the Big Bang. There are other likelier explanations.
Could anyone still meet the Theoretical Minimum?
The brain is highly plastic — the more we do a particular action, the more we change its makeup. Money is a great motivator for habit-forming actions.
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Cable news has a bigger effect, study finds.
Mixed messages and competing interests have left college students feeling lost and stressed.
Online learning has become the new normal, but it isn't without its challenges.
Many people lived long enough to grow old in the olden days, too.
But don't buy your own brain zapping machine, yet.
Hubble revolutionized astronomy more than once. Here's what we can expect from the James Webb Space Telescope.
Thanks to genetics and improving nutrition, denizens of the Western Balkans have surpassed the Dutch in height.
People who rate themselves as highly knowledgeable about cats are more likely to interact with cats in ways they don't like.
Bloodcurdling war cries, shrieking elephants, and whistling arrows all made soldiers flee in terror.
The antibodies elicited by the "S2 vaccine" not only neutralize COVID's multiple strains but also coronaviruses that cause the common cold.
We will become billions of people who share a single vast intellect.