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Nuclear fusion has long been seen as the future of energy. As the NIF now passes the breakeven point, how close are we to our ultimate goal?
The most important events in history have nothing to do with politics or wars.
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If you gave me $400 and I gave you $3.15, would you consider yourself wealthier? That's a financial analogy for the supposed fusion power "breakthrough."
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The popular game has a backstory rife with segregation, inequality, intellectual theft, and outlandish political theories.
How could we fight Alzheimer's with the body's own immunity?
Use words with plosives and affricates if you really want to make sure everyone knows you mean business.
Zen masters often have strikingly different ideas about how to live and attain enlightenment.
Leaving Hubble in the dust, JWST has officially seen a galaxy from just 320 million years after the Big Bang: at just 2.3% its current age.
The placebo effect is real. So are the ethical conundrums posed by those who would exploit the latest research advances for profit.
Some of the weirdest characters in Greek mythology were Athenian kings.
The prescription poop can correct life-threatening bacterial imbalances in the gut.
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What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. That old adage roughly sums up the idea of antifragility, a term coined by the statistician and writer Nassim Taleb. The term refers […]
The AI is helping Twitter users plot movies, design meal plans, and more.
The very dust that blocks our view of the distant, luminous objects in the Universe is responsible for our entire existence.
Fathers’ brains adjust their structure and function to parenthood.
"Carpe diem" was only one part of Horace's poem Odes 1.11.