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"Kids are always asking two questions of parents: 'Am I safe?' and 'Am I real?'"
The insanity of the academic job market laid out in numbers.
Hawaii is the most isolated volcanic hot spot on Earth, far away from any plate boundary.
Guess which country has 269% inflation.
The most common element in the Universe, vital for forming new stars, is hydrogen. But there's a finite amount of it; what if we run out?
Life is the only physical system that actively uses information.
For decades, cinemas have earned more from concessions than ticket sales. But can their current business model survive in the streaming age?
Million Stories
Maybe bring an umbrella just in case.
Running to catch the bus might help you live longer.
ChatGPT's capabilities are astonishing.
Eyes with lower pigment (blue or grey eyes) don’t need to absorb as much light as brown or dark eyes before this information reaches the retinal cells. This might provide light-eyed people with some resilience to SAD.
Light carries with it the secrets of reality in ways we cannot completely understand.
Without a solid understanding of the factors that affect the transfer of learning, the gulf between training and job performance is difficult to bridge.
Wizbang innovations capture the public’s imagination, but thoughtful, incremental development is often more valuable to those in need.
We don’t know when or how music was originally invented, but we can now track its evolution across space and time thanks to the Global Jukebox.
We thought the Big Bang started it all. Then we realized that something else came before, and it erased everything that existed prior.
St Nick had a history of teleporting long before needing to reach all the world's children in one night.
There is more consensus on what heaven looks like than hell.
A group of prominent scientists shares how research has changed them.