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This scientist collected thousands of secrets. They all had 3 things in common.
We'll never be able to extract any information about what's inside a black hole's event horizon. Here's why a singularity is inevitable.
Terrified of blushing? You might have erythrophobia.
Flexible organic circuits might someday hook right into your head.
Bilingualism confers various mental health and social benefits. Perhaps knowing a second alphabet confers even more.
All roads may not lead to Rome, but many of them lead to wealth and prosperity — even 1,500 years after the fall of the Roman Empire.
The great hope is that beyond the indirect, astrophysical evidence we have today, we'll someday detect it directly. But what if we can't?
Surely they can't be worse…can they?
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We don’t need one Elon Musk. We need 8 billion empathic futurists.
Carl Jung was one such person.
Psychologists are finding that moral code violations can leave an enduring mark — and may require new types of therapy.
By studying the dwarf galaxy Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte ~3 million light-years away, JWST reveals the Universe's star-forming history firsthand.
A 19th-century surveying mistake kept lumberjacks away from what is now Minnesota's largest patch of old-growth trees.
Mahāyāna is the most popular type of Buddhism in the world today.
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Bo Seo, Harvard’s former debate coach, explains a good argument.
There are different types of atheism and atheists. In general, they can be classified as the non-religious, the non-believers, and agnostics.
Being mortal makes life so much sweeter.
An independent researcher looks into why there's such strong opposition to her research.
The genes responsible for facial features may also influence behavior.