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The material is both stronger and lighter than those used to make conventional power plant turbines.
When done right, dark humor can help us face inconvenient truths and question stifling social conventions.
But it's still challenging to build a 22,000-mile elevator.
Science news presents a flood of breakthroughs and discoveries that promise to change our lives. They rarely do.
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A dog's breed isn't as predictive of behavior as many think it is. Environment and upbringing play a much larger role.
Sophia, the humanoid robot, is not just mirroring emotions; she's leading a revolution in emotional intelligence.
John Templeton Foundation
Roosevelt had become president but not in the way he wanted. Still, he understood that he had been given the rare opportunity to make history.
Headlines have blared that quasar ticking confirms that time passed more slowly in the early Universe. That's not how any of this works.
A 2020 study revived a longstanding controversy over Christopher Columbus' claims of marauding cannibals in the Caribbean.
Perhaps there was something theatrically satisfying about a learned man waving around a flask of pee, looking at it from all angles, sniffing it, and making bold proclamations.
If you want to write and speak well, use common words, not grandiose ones. Unless you're Shakespeare, you're more likely to annoy people.
Math can explain why your laces spontaneously come untied — and how to stop it.
Your brain is trying to show you the future.
Your expectations form the way you experience the world.
People discovered prehistoric fossils long before Charles Darwin published "On the Origin of Species." The remains of these unknown creatures often puzzled their discoverers.
Functional complex systems arise from functional simple systems. Failing to heed this advice can and will lead to disaster.
Debate is a verbal sport with winners and losers. As such, it is less about the truth and more about who looks and sounds the best.
For thousands of years, we puzzled at how far away the Moon was. Today we know its distance, at any time, to within millimeters.
A philosophical debate spanning creation, free will, and a sneaky teapot.