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It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a medieval airship!
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A spherical structure nearly one billion light-years wide has been spotted in the nearby Universe, dating all the way back to the Big Bang.
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Individuals and organizations can maintain a strong and enduring identity by repeatedly remaking themselves.
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Quality down time is important for relationships. Here are three practical suggestions to create more of it.
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The matter that creates black holes won't be what comes out when they evaporate. Will the black hole information paradox ever be solved?
Sweet, bitter, salty, sour. These are the four basic tastes we were taught in grade school. But there is a fifth: umami. And it's everywhere.
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Dive into seven texts that continue to shape Western philosophy, from ancient Mesopotamia to Greece's brightest minds.
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In 1987, the closest supernova directly observed in nearly 400 years occurred. Will a pulsar arise from those ashes? JWST offers clues.
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Experiments on suborbital rockets are revealing how to make a better iron furnace.
A blue background with a lot of blue lights is the worst prediction.
When it comes to predicting the energy of empty space, the two leading theories disagree by a factor of 100 googol quintillion.
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The mountain can generate lenticular clouds, which may contribute to its supernatural reputation.
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The asteroid is expected to come within 140,000 miles of Earth — well inside the moon’s orbit.
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Over a third are worried that vaccines can cause "canine autism."
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“Choose not to be harmed—and you won’t feel harmed," advised Stoic philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius. He had a point.
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Jung thought these autonomous entities live in your unconscious mind — often at a cost.
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Football is a risky sport, but bicycling to work is far more dangerous.
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Three fundamental forces matter inside an atom, but gravity is mind-bogglingly weak on those scales. Could extra dimensions explain why?
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Is mindfulness really the panacea it's touted to be, or are we glossing over some fundamental flaws?