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If economic growth knowingly increases mass-scale suffering, can we stop chasing it?
Could Jerome Segal lead the country toward the utopia of our American dreams?
As it turns out, hacking an election isn't as hard as you'd think.
By the time John Paul DeJoria founded John Paul Mitchell Systems, he’d already sold encyclopedias on commission door-to-door, and he understood the importance of persistence in the face of rejection. […]
As soon as you start thinking about energy and gravity, you’ll realize the need to go beyond it. When it comes to a science like physics, theoretical expectations must always be […]
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Without expressing and evaluating ideas, we would never be able to determine what's right or wrong.
We're bored, and we've lost our ability to be awestruck and amazed. Let's fix that.
In Canada and Austria, there are some signs that the young Swedish activist is already reshaping the political landscape.
Astronomers have recently discovered the most massive neutron star to date, nearly at the theoretical limit for such stars. But it's only about the size of a small city.
Even before publication, health agencies were asking the journal not to publish the research.
Every object in the Universe is constrained by the laws of physics. Does this mean there are any black holes that shouldn’t exist? When it comes to the objects that […]
Artificial intelligence has proven equal and even better than humans in making some diagnoses.
Part of the U.K.'s push for total wind energy.
Some scientists think there may be a hidden, second form of life living right under our noses.
Is former Vice President Joe Biden's "return to normalcy" approach too moderate for Democratic voters?
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Our ability to make predictions about the future distinguishes our level of consciousness.
Witchcraft and pagan spiritualities are on the rise in the United States — especially within mainstream youth culture.
The TESS satellite captures rare images of a cataclysmic event in a faraway galaxy.
The summit of Europe's most active volcano is also the world's only decipoint.
Those silky tea bags might be releasing plastics into your digestive system.