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Cézanne still life with bread and eggs
To answer that question, we may have to figure out when the famed painter started to go bald.
Hand-drawn treasure map, complete with a red X that "marks the spot."
X marks the spot. The Dutch town of Ommeren has been swamped by detectorists armed with shovels looking for $20-million treasure.
Unlock the full potential of your creativity with holistic detachment. This is the way of the editor.
6mins
These money experts say you can buy happiness. There are some red flags to look out for, though.
Million Stories
Mauna Kea with Gemini North
A history of injustice and the greatest natural location for ground-based telescopes have long been at odds. Here's how the healing begins.
Radical Emotional Acceptance calls on you to celebrate all of life's emotions — even the negative ones.
Humans are good visual thinkers, too, but we tend to privilege verbal thinking.
Far from practicing witchcraft, the experimentation of medieval alchemists helped bring about the Scientific Revolution.
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3mins
Left–Right, Back–Forth, Up–Down. What’s the fourth dimension?
Innovative thinking has done away with problems that long dogged the electric devices — and both scientists and environmentalists are excited about the possibilities.
JWST Pandora's Cluster Abell 2744
Along with gravitational lensing and ALMA's incredible long-wavelength spectroscopy, JWST is reshaping our view of the early Universe.
Adopting a healthy scepticism towards inherited ideas means “emptying the container of the Self.”
Jetoptera's VTOL
One of Jetoptera's VTOLs is expected to reach speeds of around 614 mph, about as fast as a commercial jet airliner.
New blood types are regularly discovered by an unusual absence or an unusual presence — both of which can result in tragedy.
7mins
Humans are musical animals four million years in the making, explained by music expert Michael Spitzer.
Disease kills off 40% of farmed catfish. This gene protects them.
Your breathing rhythm influences a wide range of behaviors, cognition, and emotion.
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Researchers watched for signs of withdrawal — but didn't find any.
A cup of coffee with a brain silhouette drawn on the foam.
Compared to people who took a placebo, the brains of those who took caffeine pills had a temporarily smaller gray matter volume.