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To be successful at bonsai cultivation, you must acquire the perseverance and unconditional kindness normally reserved for devout monks.
On the morning of June 30, 1908, an explosion of more than 10 megatons occurred above the sparsely populated Siberian Taiga. What caused the so-called Tunguska event?
The Industrial Revolution changed music forever, thanks to a combination of technological advances and clever entrepreneurs.
schwinger effect
In our common experience, you can't get something for nothing. In the quantum realm, something really can emerge from nothing.
From Ramses II to Alexander the Great, these leaders helped shaped the world we know today.
Roman villa
The “first-of-its-kind” archeological find is being reburied despite the fact that researchers haven’t finished studying it.
Sex can be a death trap even for modern toad and frog species.
Anything, good or bad, about Henry Ford can be contradicted — except his ambition and his work.
A horned, fanged figure lies on the ground with a foot pressing down on its neck; red drapery is visible above.
6mins
Darwin, Descartes, and Maxwell all believed in these science ‘demons.’
John Templeton Foundation
jwst cartwheel
The first set of James Webb's images blew us all away. In just 2 mere months, it's seen highlights that no one could have predicted.
Time will tell what the reign of Charles III will look like, but one thing is for sure: the “new Elizabethan age” is long gone.
covid nasal spray
The spray uses snippets of DNA to gum up virus replication.
4mins
What the ‘decade of the brain’ taught us about drug addiction. (Hint, we had it all wrong before.)
movies
Netflix might have something to do with it.
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As recently as 1990, we didn't know of any planets beyond our Solar System. Today, with 5000+, we're deep into the weeds of how they form.