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A radical redesign of commercial aircraft, called the flying-V plane, could increase fuel efficiency by 20%, greatly reducing emissions.
While there is more to North Korean cinema than meets the eye, the country’s film industry ultimately amounts to little more than a mouthpiece for the ruling Kim dynasty.
On Nov. 13, 1946, a scientist dropped crushed dry ice from a plane into supercooled stratus clouds.
Revolutionary techniques for understanding brain functions in animals could soon help us understand how emotions guide our lives.
Society treats teenagers as if they’re a problem to be solved, but the truth is that we have to prepare them to solve our problems. It’s time that we change the narrative.
John Templeton Foundation
Mutations that confer malaria resistance occur more frequently in people who live in regions where the disease is endemic.
To study the origin of the Universe, we could build a constellation of six expensive spacecraft — or we could just use the Moon.
4mins
A majority of Americans think they are trustworthy, yet believe most other people can’t be trusted.
Stand Together
For some reason, when we talk about the age of stars, galaxies, and the Universe, we use "years" to measure time. Can we do better?
COVID-19 and other microbes have shed light on disease spillover from animals to humans, but we can also spillback disease to wildlife.
The relationship between these two ways of thinking about the world deserves deeper exploration.
Murmurations have no leader and follow no plan.
Until robots understand jokes and sarcasm, artificial general intelligence will remain in the realm of science fiction.
The attitude we take to Will Smith's slap will mirror our attitudes to violence, masculinity, and protecting others more generally.
From life on Earth to the planet itself, there are four ways our planet will actually experience "the end," no matter how we define it.
Here's how learning leaders can best take advantage of the technology that employees carry with them everywhere.
From the tablets of the Babylonians to the telescopes of modern science, humans have always looked to the skies for fundamental answers.
3mins
40% of today’s students work full time while another 40% are over the age of 25. Here’s how to change higher education to fit today's students.
Lumina Foundation
By toppling medieval Europe’s mightiest political power, the Protestant Reformation ushered in a new age of freedom, religious and otherwise.
“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it’s us without our past?” Steinbeck writes.