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Many of them are spinning at nearly the speed of light. When you do the math, there’s no other way it could have been. Take a look out there at the […]
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Lumina Foundation wants to help 16.4 million people get a quality credential by 2025, and they're looking for entrepreneurs with the vision to help realize that goal.
Lumina Foundation
Our antipathy toward the natural world is bad. But it's not too late to change.
If ever there was a food that holds a lesson for building bridges in a fractured America, it's the cabbage roll.
Charles Koch Foundation
The famed German filmmaker offers his thoughts on reading during Eric Weinstein's podcast.
The solar farm is expected to save the airport millions over the following decades.
Though quantum teleportation has been demonstrated, the beam-me-up kind is still fiction.
We know he is on the left, but why? And how left is left anyhow?
2019 could prove to be the second-hottest year on record.
What makes Uranus and Neptune-like worlds so fascinating? If you only knew. What do we really know, and what mysteries are left to solve, about the outer worlds of our Solar […]
When you’re trying to peel back the veil obscuring the fundamental nature of matter, you have to look absolutely everywhere. Sometimes, the solution to a puzzle you’ve been stymied by […]
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From the Revolutionary War, to Rosa Parks and #MeToo, whistleblowing and civil disobedience are in America's DNA.
Institute for Humane Studies
It's a thin line, but it's definitely there.
A surprising study reveals how people feel about being replaced by robots in their jobs.
"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." — Toni Morrison
Tardigrades – commonly called "water bears" – were among the payload of an Israeli lunar lander that crashed into the moon in April.
Over the weekend, Pete Buttigieg warned of the dangers of white national terrorism. Officials in El Paso agree.
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It may be an uncomfortable thing to do, but creating a will can save your loved ones a lot of headaches after you're gone.
The dream of multi-messenger astronomy is to seen an event with gravitational waves, neutrinos, and light all together. The newest candidate just might get us there. When it comes to cataclysmic […]