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Archetypes of creation and the origin of all things.
Forget about alien nonsense. The Universe as it actually is doesn’t need any embellishments to be interesting. In our Solar System, the planets, moons, asteroids, comets and other masses are […]
A historic NASA probe sends back a treasure-trove of information from billions of miles away.
A new paper claims that scientists might be wildly mistaken about the density — and therefore, the shape — of our universe.
The green market is growing exponentially. But will the U.S. seize the economic opportunity?
"Sea of Shadows" is a documentary you can't afford to miss.
If you think about the way a gravitational wave detector works, you might encounter a paradox. Here’s the solution. One of the greatest scientific achievements in all of human history […]
Maybe it's time to show this report your employer?
The finding represents one of the first times we have observed how the human brain clears out its waste products.
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To have breakthrough ideas, try veering off your original field of study.
During a 2005 commencement address at Stanford University, Steve Jobs related an anecdote about an experience he had shortly after dropping out of college that conveys one of the qualities […]
100+ years ago, General Relativity came along, and Einstein gave the Universe a cosmological constant. Here’s why that was a mistake. Back in the 17th century, Isaac Newton put forth the […]
Focusing on the present moment has some strange effects on how people estimate stretches of time.
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The power to predict the next revolution keeps companies on top.
We live in contradiction. How we confront that fact matters.
From one serendipitously fortunate system, we gain a new window into the expanding Universe’s biggest conundrum. We’ve known our Universe is expanding for ~90 years, yet unsolved mysteries persist. The […]
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Is anything clear in the age of disinformation?
Scientists recently discovered a black hole that's smaller than previously thought possible.