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It might seem petty and shallow to get upset over a bad gift, but there's often a deeper reason behind the feeling.
With its first view of a protoplanetary disk around a newly forming star, the JWST reveals how alone individual stellar systems truly are.
Economic growth is more about quality than quantity.
One award was for a medical procedure that incapacitated thousands of people.
This year’s Nobel Peace Prize ceremony sends yet another strong message to Russian president Vladimir Putin.
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Dr. Carl Hart breaks taboos surrounding drug use in America.
Forensic researchers call such places “limited access environments.”
More than 1,000 years ago, Mesoamerican societies conducted one of history's most interesting experiments in commodity money.
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Many were expecting extremism survivor and free speech advocate Salman Rushdie to take home the Nobel Prize in Literature, but Annie Ernaux beat him to it.
Einstein always loses in the quantum realm.
Before we discovered gravitational waves, multi-messenger astronomy got its start with light and particles arriving from the same event.
Japan just opened to tourists for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began, echoing the island country’s isolationist policies during the feudal era.
There's no escaping the death of loved ones. But that doesn't mean we're powerless in the wake of loss.
Uncertainty is inherent to our Universe.
This is a perversion of justice.
Fiona Broome remembered Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the 1980s (he didn't). Oddly, many people had the same false memory.
They say that nobody understands quantum mechanics. But thanks to these three pioneers in quantum entanglement, perhaps we do.
There were many other species of human on the planet. Svante Pääbo discovered one of them.
The idea that we're happier at the beginning and end of our lives is really just a comforting myth.
The crabs' blue blood contains an ancient immune defense mechanism that has helped save countless human lives.
Every Christmas could be the last Christmas.
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Expert Matthew Ball explains how the Metaverse is a golden opportunity to fix the internet.
People living in non-industrialized societies don't get pimples.
Pando is a stand of aspen in Utah that is 14,000 years old and weighs 12 million pounds. Humans threaten to end its long reign.
The monsoon rains were not always so reliable.
The "attention economy" corrupts science.
"Salvator Mundi" sold for a record-breaking $450 million in 2017, but is it really as valuable as people were led to believe?
The U.S. military once used Google’s tech without their employees knowing. Anna Butrico explains the complicated history behind “Project Maven.”
Reading between the lines of Dorothy’s adventure to the Emerald City.
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