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If you see life as only a source of suffering and misery, why bring anyone else into that? This belief, called anti-natalism, is on the rise.
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AI is helping us replace petrochemicals with natural enzymes.
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"The more I unleash myself from the tethers of domestication, the happier I feel."
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According to bushido, your life is of secondary importance to key virtues, like honor, loyalty, and justice.
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A few key moments are linked to significant shifts in thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
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This biologist built a living robot from frog cells — and it could hold the key to the future of regenerative medicine.
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The Universe isn't just expanding, the expansion is also accelerating. If that's true, how will the Milky Way and Andromeda eventually merge?
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Despite the vast number of planets in the Universe, Earth's specific evolutionary history guarantees that its life forms — including humans — are utterly unique.
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The history of cartography might have been very different if the Latin version of Muhammad al-Idrisi's atlas had survived instead of the Arabic one.
Ideal models of family life have been broken by societal, technological, and cultural shifts — and we need to rethink our options.
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By probing the Universe on atomic scales and smaller, we can reveal the entirety of the Standard Model, and with it, the quantum Universe.
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The author of Frankenstein had an obsession with the cemetery and saw love and death as connected.
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We are not the center of the Universe, but life is.
A high-fat diet might trigger inflammation of the hypothalamus.
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Predictive power has perverse, anti-democratic consequences. So be a good citizen and lie to election pollsters.
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When what we predict and what we measure don't add up, that's a sign there's something new to learn. Could it be a new fundamental force?
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Time to rewrite our understanding of structural engineering.
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Listening to some songs can cause a powerful physiological response known as "frisson." What is it, and why does it happen?