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Facebook's misinformation isn't just a threat to democracy. It's endangering lives.
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In the office, vulnerability is the opposite of weakness.
How can physics on the smallest scales affect what the Universe does on its largest ones? Cosmic inflation holds the answer. On a macroscopic level, the Universe appears to be entirely […]
Going from a solitary teenage protester in front of the Swedish parliament to a global icon in little more than a year certainly merits a distinction.
The Jerezo crater — where Mars 2020 is set to land — could be a good place to find signs of past life on Mars.
Austro-Japanese aristocrat Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi later concentrated on plans for Pan-Europe.
Here’s a formula for chaos: Collect a diverse and volatile group of eccentric comedians and comedy writers, and give them a nearly impossible task with a just-barely-possible deadline. Oh, and […]
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The internet has given us the opportunity to stay informed better than ever. It's also given us the ability to misinform ourselves — delude ourselves — beyond belief.
The quest for the ultimate vacuum just got taken to the next level thanks to a new technique: the quantum squeezer. One of the most understated frontiers in all of […]
About 21 percent of gamers in the United States are over the age of 50.
"It's just a joke," right?
As much as we say it's not about the clothes, it's still about the clothes.
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Paying a fee for greenhouse gas emissions may spur a revolution, in terms of corporate behavior, amid the climate crisis.
A review of Matthew Engelke's How to Think Like an Anthropologist.
Even extremely simple configurations in General Relativity cannot be solved exactly. Here’s the science of why. It’s difficult to appreciate how revolutionary of a transformation it is to consider the Universe […]
Observing the great gas giant helps me to keep important things in perspective.
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When it comes to making others laugh, you have to help them observe an absurd fact of life with you.
A recent study challenges the conventional thinking that says only young people can dream up successful new businesses.
If this discovery came in a pre-LIGO era, maybe it would have been a surprise. But in 2019, there’s no mystery at all. Did you hear that astronomers had recently […]