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A man in a suit rides a comet with a face through a star-filled night sky, reflecting on lessons learned from space travel; a top hat floats nearby as the moon smiles in the background.
Astronaut Chris Hadfield shares how living in space has bettered his life on Earth.
John Templeton Foundation
brain development age
Neuroscience research suggests it might be time to rethink our ideas about when exactly a child becomes an adult.
m81 group
Just 12 million light-years away, the galaxies Messier 81 and 82 offer a nearby preview of the Milky Way-Andromeda merger.
wordle
Wordle activates both the language and logic parts of our brain and give us a nice boost of dopamine, whether we win or lose.
foamy beer
If you want to have foamy beer inside the comfort of your own home, you need to invest in a special nucleated glass.
Omo Kibish
Dating of volcanic ash suggests the remains are at least 230,000 years old.
People who are good at math get ore satisfaction from money.
Those that were the best at math didn't even show income satiation — there was no upper limit to how much money could make them happy.
who is the god of dead
The death of God didn’t strike Nietzsche as an entirely good thing. Without a God, the basic belief system of Western Europe was in jeopardy.
chess computers
What was once an art form has been drained of color and personality by ruthless algorithms. Can we make chess human again?
anencephaly
The catastrophic birth defect anencephaly affects about 1 in 4,600 pregnancies in the U.S. It is largely preventable with folic acid supplements.
French Revolution
Despite losing most of his extended family to the guillotine, Tocqueville grew up to become a fervent supporter of democratic revolution.
travel straight line
Is the Universe finite or infinite? Does it go on forever or loop back on itself? Here's what would happen if you traveled forever.
Kiev Motherland Monument
Since Ukraine originally meant “borderland,” the territory was already a target for several kingdoms.
SpinLaunch
Besides offering an incredibly cool way to get stuff into space, SpinLaunch promises to reduce the cost of a launch by 20-fold.
syphilis
The most feared sexually transmitted disease (STD) of the last half-millennium was usually named after foreigners, often the French.
eastern philosophy
Non-Western thought is vast and ancient, so why don't some consider it philosophy?
baby universe
The inside of every black hole leads to the birth of a new Universe. Could our Universe have arisen from one?