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The gem lapis lazuli is the source of luminescent blue in manuscript illustrations.
Everything we know can be traced back to the Big Bang, and before that, cosmic inflation. But what if we look to the future? Looking out at the Universe today, it’s […]
"History matters, and we now know that hysteresis is part of the answer," wrote the author of a recent study.
Proxima Centauri, our closest star, is more than 4 light years away. Reaching it under 10,000 years will be challenging; reaching it with living humans will be even harder.
When a country's educated or entrepreneurial citizens leave all at once, the phenomenon is called "human capital flight" or "brain drain".
We knew the Chicxulub crater was massive. We just didn't know how widespread the damage actually was.
The reason why is simple, and should apply to every solar system like our own. On January 3rd, 2019, Earth reached the point in its orbit where it’s at its closest […]
The pressure of getting into a top-tier college seems to have influenced the ways teenagers sort themselves into cliques.
The Earth is getting warmer, and humans are the cause. This is why. Let’s play pretend for a moment. Pretend, if you can, that you’ve never heard about the idea of […]
"The best is the child in a separate room, where it then remains alone," a bestselling Nazi-era parenting book advised.