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Between the instability of the real estate market and cryptocurrency fluctuations, everyone has been talking about bubbles. But what are they, really?
Million Stories
Compared to Earth, Mars is small, cold, dry, and lifeless. But 3.4 billion years ago, a killer asteroid caused a Martian megatsunami.
Virtually all the statistical methods researchers commonly use assume potential mating partners decide who they will have children with based on a roll of the dice.
A new study says the reason cave paintings are in such remote caverns was the artists' search for transcendence.
Interpersonal skills training
From active listening to giving feedback, these five capabilities are integral to interpersonal skills training.
Rembrandt Raising of the Cross sketch
A conservator from the Rijksmuseum explains how they went about investigating whether the painting is a genuine Rembrandt.
antimatter
The answer to this question is key to understanding why anything exists.
black hole central singularity
We'll never be able to extract any information about what's inside a black hole's event horizon. Here's why a singularity is inevitable.
Terrified of blushing? You might have erythrophobia.
Flexible organic circuits might someday hook right into your head.
We have less time than you might think.
Bilingualism confers various mental health and social benefits. Perhaps knowing a second alphabet confers even more.
All roads may not lead to Rome, but many of them lead to wealth and prosperity — even 1,500 years after the fall of the Roman Empire.
The great hope is that beyond the indirect, astrophysical evidence we have today, we'll someday detect it directly. But what if we can't?
Psychologists are finding that moral code violations can leave an enduring mark — and may require new types of therapy.