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They're the most common type of exoplanet known today, and many astronomers have called them "super-habitable." None of that is true.
As a physician, John Pringle helped reinvent hygiene; as a husband, he destroyed a woman’s life with his abuse.
Rapamycin is potentially the most powerful anti-aging drug ever discovered. However, due to its unlucky history, few know of it.
Billy was a local celebrity in the early 1900s. And he might have been a murderer.
Before there were planets, stars, and galaxies, before even neutral atoms or stable protons, there was the Big Bang. How did we prove it?
Einstein's relativity overthrew the notion of absolute space and time, replacing them with a spacetime fabric. But is spacetime truly real?
Wealthier in resources; poorer in time.
The deep-thinking oddballs of West Coast cycle racing valued mid-ride marijuana over sports science.
The average age of cannabis users is increasing. Weed may fall out of fashion before it becomes legal everywhere.
Nobody knows where the word "penguin" comes from.
Stone buildings in northern India reveal secrets of old structures that could save lives.
To protect yourself, you need an antifungal rather than an amulet.
Piano Sonata No. 23 offers a window into the way culture became an instrument of Soviet state policy.
It's not about fairness. It's about using every possible advantage.
Far from being a “dead” pursuit that focuses on old ideas, modern philosophy proposes and debates important, new concepts. All of us can learn from it.
Left-handed humans were likelier to get stabbed in the heart.
How humans came to feel comfortable among strangers, like those in a café, is an under-explored mystery.
John Templeton Foundation
Here’s what Europe would have looked like if the Confederation of the Danube had been established after WWII.
How one man's divine dream became a poultry-shaped reality.
How do physicists solve a problem like entropy?
Uncover the high cost of raising a family and discover strategies to make it more manageable and rewarding.
Million Stories
Nagomi helps us find balance in discord by unifying the elements of life while staying true to ourselves.
Once the initial blaze of heat dissipated, the constituent particles of atoms were free to bind.
As AI evolves — and more robotic warfare systems are deployed — the nature of conflict could change beyond recognition.
Quantum uncertainty and wave-particle duality are big features of quantum physics. But without Pauli's rule, our Universe wouldn't exist.
What do Remus Lupin, Katniss Evergreen, William Wordsworth, and Usain Bolt all have in common?
The cosmic microwave background offers clues.
Finding out how the Universe grew up was the biggest science goal of JWST. This ultra-early proto-galaxy cluster is one amazing discovery.
Some authors never saw their books score widespread acclaim—or even get published at all.
One hypothesis: "gossip traps."