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The green market is growing exponentially. But will the U.S. seize the economic opportunity?
"Sea of Shadows" is a documentary you can't afford to miss.
If you think about the way a gravitational wave detector works, you might encounter a paradox. Here’s the solution. One of the greatest scientific achievements in all of human history […]
Maybe it's time to show this report your employer?
The finding represents one of the first times we have observed how the human brain clears out its waste products.
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To have breakthrough ideas, try veering off your original field of study.
During a 2005 commencement address at Stanford University, Steve Jobs related an anecdote about an experience he had shortly after dropping out of college that conveys one of the qualities […]
100+ years ago, General Relativity came along, and Einstein gave the Universe a cosmological constant. Here’s why that was a mistake. Back in the 17th century, Isaac Newton put forth the […]
Focusing on the present moment has some strange effects on how people estimate stretches of time.
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The power to predict the next revolution keeps companies on top.
We live in contradiction. How we confront that fact matters.
From one serendipitously fortunate system, we gain a new window into the expanding Universe’s biggest conundrum. We’ve known our Universe is expanding for ~90 years, yet unsolved mysteries persist. The […]
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Is anything clear in the age of disinformation?
Scientists recently discovered a black hole that's smaller than previously thought possible.
Gig workers suffer from low pay, wage theft, precariousness, dangerous working conditions, and discrimination.
A new study says curiosity and creativity are computational errors.
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What happens when a major social media platform's business model abuses user trust?
Journeys of discovery and wonder in the inner and outer world.
Our Universe is 13.8 billion years old, and our Sun formed about 2/3rds of the way through. Here’s what came before it. When it comes to the great cosmic question of […]