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The barrier to solar energy has always been storage. Now, bottled sunshine has a shelf-life of 18 years.
It's an asteroid, it's a comet, it's actually a spacecraft?
The Royole Corporation beat Samsung to the punch when it recently released the world's first commercially available folding smartphone.
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Using terrifying language when talking about climate change may be scaring people into inaction.
A perspective from Brother Guy Consolmagno, astronomer and theologian.
Your fate is only rarely determined at birth. Ultimately, every star has a chance to get there. Three times in the past 1,000 years, a portion of humanity has looked up […]
Famously unusual case studies that perplexed psychologists.
Fox News, NBC, Facebook and CNN have all stopped airing the commercial, which some critics have labelled as inflammatory and racist.
As long as we fail to name capitalism as a key cause of mass extinction, we will remain powerless to break its tragic story.
Researchers found that Olympic silver medalists lived longer and earned more than gold medalists, which begs the question of what matters: your success, or how you respond to it.
The renowned linguist and controversial political critic said President Donald Trump is choosing to race toward the catastrophes of climate change.
Because of course one ketogenic diet isn't enough.
Culture determines how mental illness or aberrant mental behavior is viewed and dealt with.
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How to stay present and stop your mind from fixating.
These ten ghostly astronomical sights house some deep-and-frightening scientific truths within them. With a huge suite of different observatories for viewing the Universe, innumerable details can be revealed. This ‘Godzilla’ asterism […]
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Beyond trigger warnings and safe spaces lies an entire population that espouses victimhood in all walks of life.