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Preventing scurvy is not just a problem in the Antarctic.
Being more creative doesn’t require a ‘Muse.’ It’s about pairing intelligence and imagination.
This marks a historic moment in humanity’s relationship to the planet.
Polarization or misunderstanding?
Detective fiction reveals how a particular society or time period looks at crime and criminal justice.
The strangest thing about trying to predict the future is that our only clues lie in the past.
One theory for catatonia is that it is similar to an animal's “death feint.”
Experimental archaeology is the practice of recreating past events using knowledge and tools available at the time. Sometimes, it involves elephants.
The chemistry of cooking over an open flame.
The last time the population shrank was during the great famine of 1959-61.
Robinson v. California helped to established a rehabilitative ideal: addiction should be dealt with as a therapeutic matter.
This isn't America's first rodeo with monkeypox. In 2003, the virus swept across America thanks to a shipment of exotic animals.
Before the war, medical experts treated the body as a sum of its parts. Conditions like wound shock and brain damage called for a change in perspective.
Privateers pillaged British merchant ships in the name of liberty — and profit.
Wyoming's roads are nine times deadlier than Ireland's. California's road safety is on par with Romania's.
There is nothing more important to science than its ability to prove ideas wrong.
Humans who've lived through the same events often remember them differently. Could quantum physics be responsible?
Suppose that fetuses are persons. Since pregnant people are too, how should conflicts between them be settled?
Technologically, the answer is definitely no. But that doesn't mean CGI is always used to good effect.
Regardless of political ideology, one of the few things that many people seem to have in common is a moral hypocrisy that arises from a fundamental lack of self-reflection.
Are dreams, hallucinations, and near death experiences all connected?
In a major advance, scientists have found a new and groundbreaking way to force electrons to flow only in one direction in a superconductor.
OmnesViae is a modern route planner based on the roads of the Roman Empire.
Over time, the Universe becomes less dominated by dark matter and more dominated by dark energy. Is one transforming into the other?
13.8 billion years ago, the hot Big Bang gave rise to the Universe we know. Here's why the reverse, a Big Crunch, isn't how it will end.
Bernini created art for 8 different popes. In the process, he helped reinforce and redefine Christianity’s visual culture.
Human sacrifice appears to be as old as humanity itself. Still, experts disagree on how and where the practice first originated.
Pseudoscience is science’s shadow.