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Tragedy in art, from Ancient Greece to Breaking Bad, resists all our efforts to tie reality up in a neat bow, to draw some edifying lesson from it. Instead it confronts us with our own limitations, leaving us scrabbling in the rubble of certainty to figure out what's next.
It’s the technique, from the Event Horizon Telescope, that brought us a black hole’s image. Here’s how it works. The Event Horizon Telescope has accomplished what no other telescope or telescope […]
Taking care of our minds is an often neglected aspect of aging. What are we going to do about it?
Northwell Health
"Earth" features about 30 of the biggest names in entertainment.
Famous inventors and scientists submission to the daily grind
1,500 study participants play Spot the Cheater
As the world seems to spin ever faster, “agility” has become more than something to which a business might aspire — it’s become an absolute necessity for any company looking […]
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Lumina Foundation
A balanced discussion of the realities, the mythologies, and the concerns surrounding cutting-edge brain research.
We’ve put so much together about the Universe. Could it all come tumbling down? We’re always on the lookout for the next big thing, and even our best guesswork is often […]
Disagreements are inevitable — we all have different experiences that lead us to be who we are and to what we believe. Almost as inevitable are distrust, suspicion, and even […]
The Bajau people's nomadic lifestyle has given them remarkable adaptions, enabling them to stay underwater for unbelievable periods of time. Their lifestyle, however, is quickly disappearing.
An innovation may lead to lifelike evolving machines.
There are reasons you look the way you do.
Policy advisor Simon Anholt believes the question we should ask is, which country is the "goodest"?
And what do we still have left to learn? The original idea of a black hole goes all the way back to 1783, when Cambridge scientist John Michell recognized that a […]
Researchers hope the technology will further our understanding of the brain, but lawmakers may not be ready for the ethical challenges.
Believe it or not, for a few decades, giving people "milk transfusions" was all the rage.