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Today's video is part of a series on female genius, in proud collaboration with 92Y's 7 Days of Genius Festival.
Any normal person with a smartphone would take a picture of an aurora and post it on social media, which is what led Elizabeth MacDonald and Nathan Case to found the Aurorasaurus website. Since scientists can't be everywhere at all times to spot these auroras, they rely on social media to do it for them.
New evidence could help spark a renewed debate about restoring Pluto's planethood. Images from NASA’s New Horizons mission reveals the “dwarf planet” may have clouds, which would indicate a weather system.
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Religious practices run deep in many cultures and their influence will be slow to fade away. But this shouldn't deter a scientific outlook from helping us make practical decisions in life.
Researchers have discovered that the apps you have installed on your phone can predict your age, income, gender, and marital status.
Will it be Betelgeuse? Eta Carinae? Here are some candidates that are less popular, but perhaps more likely! “Some of them burn slow and long, like red dwarfs. Others — blue giants — burn […]
The current buzz is that robots are set to take our jobs – whether we work on the factory floor or the halls of finance. What could possibly be next? Perhaps robots will even replace our children.
Ursula Nordstrom changed children's literature. During her time as the editor-in-chief of juvenile books at Harper & Row, she helped nurture the talents of many authors, such as Shel Silverstein author of The Giving Tree and Maurice Sendak illustrator and author of Where the Wild Things Are.
Norway announced plans this week to construct a system of cycleways safely connecting nine of its biggest cities to outer suburbs. The project is estimated to cost just under $1 billion and is part of a broader transportation initiative to be completed by 2030.
Most teaching textbooks aren't evidence-based according to a new report, so where should teachers go to keep their skills up to date?
How autonomous weapons will be utilized in our military is uncertain. Paul Scharre shares why their future use on the battlefield should be carefully considered.
Turkish cardinal directions? I didn't even know they had cardinals in Turkey!
The reward of the doldrums is an uptick, however temporary, in your ability to make rational decisions.
When Francis Bellamy penned our pledge in 1892, his focus was really on the 'liberty and justice for all' part.
Drug cartels use social media to celebrate the narco-lifestyle. It also gets them in trouble.
They don’t look like our other spherical maps we’re used to seeing. So what’s actually going on? “The bedrock nature of space and time and the unification of cosmos and quantum […]
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Today's video is part of a series on female genius, in proud collaboration with 92Y's 7 Days of Genius Festival.
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Scientific advancement is more than a series of experiments: it is often a debate among scientists with fundamentally different points of view. Niels Bohr knew this firsthand thanks to Einstein.
What’s the science behind the need to add an extra day to the calendar every so often? “Will you or won’t you? Should you or shouldn’t you? Use this day […]
Adam Smith hated greed. He'd likely be horrified to see how his name is now used. And any Smith fans who believe selfishness is a virtue distort what Smith called his best work.