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asceticism
Jains believe that karma weighs the soul down. This can be overcome through extreme asceticism, in which one slowly withdraws from life.
Great Red Spot
Much like computing technology, the Great Red Spot has been getting smaller and faster over the last few years.
Migrating our planet to a safer orbit might be the only way to preserve Earth after all the ice melts.
To enable us to read, the brain piggybacks on other cognitive processes.
Holograms you can touch illustrated by two hands reaching toward each other.
The holograms use 'aerohaptics', which creates feelings of touch with simple jets of air.
Foundation apple tv
The "Foundation" series, recently adapted into a show by Apple TV, was inspired by a fascinating, real-life academic discipline.
European discoveries
This map shows that the territories discovered by Europeans add up to an area no bigger than Utah.
Chemical energy, where electrons transition in atoms, powers the reactions we see. But two other types hold more promise than all the rest.
Two co-workers sitting together
More than pay or advancement, people are seeking a better fit between their own and corporate values.
2021 Nobel peace prize
Both journalists have put themselves in danger to shed light on corruption and abuses of power in their home countries.
Digital twin
Mind Bank Ai is the newest entrant in an ambitious idea: using AI to create a kind of immortality.
Metalic Corrosion
Without Benjamin List and David MacMillan, chemists would still be using metals and enzymes to catalyze chemical reactions.
Guided by ultrasound waves, swarms of microrobots could soon be used to deliver medicine to targeted sites in the body.
henri bergson
Our temporal experience of the world is not divided into a series of neat segments, yet that's how we talk about time.
Data privacy in a digital world could be a thing of the past
People appear to have no qualms about sharing their locations, struggles, and relationships online.
Abdulrazak Gurnah
The Swedish Academy honored the writer for his uncompromising inquiry into the lasting consequences of Africa’s colonization.
cosmic inflation
Many contrarians dispute that cosmic inflation occurred. The evidence says otherwise.
bernardinelli-bernstein
A new study shows that the Bernardinelli-Bernstein Comet is much larger than previously thought — potentially the largest ever spotted.
Hot peppers
David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian were awarded the highest honor in medicine for their research into how human bodies make sense of and respond to the outside world.