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Far from practicing witchcraft, the experimentation of medieval alchemists helped bring about the Scientific Revolution.
Innovative thinking has done away with problems that long dogged the electric devices — and both scientists and environmentalists are excited about the possibilities.
Adopting a healthy scepticism towards inherited ideas means “emptying the container of the Self.”
New blood types are regularly discovered by an unusual absence or an unusual presence — both of which can result in tragedy.
"It is more human to laugh at life than to lament it."
Out of sight, but not out of mind.
Entrenched business wisdom says that community-led economic systems are pure fantasy. Douglas Rushkoff disagrees.
When you bring two fingers together, you can feel them "touch" each other. But are your atoms really touching, and if so, how?
What we've learning from the world’s coldest, most forbidding, and most peaceful continent.
Some Europeans really don't want to use the internet.
Evil is easy to identify and fight against; not so with stupidity.
Warm relationships protect your mind and body from the slings and arrows of life.
In Einstein's relativity and the Standard Model, we only have three spatial dimensions. But there could be more, and many think there are.
One study suggested that the "Methuselah Star" is older than the Universe itself.
There is a strong case to be made that the China has moved too slowly to reverse the effects of its one-child policy.
Created in the 1880s, "Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan," which depicts a father murdering his son, divides Russians to this day.
Some objects were softer than others.
It is estimated that as many as 488 million people worldwide were exposed to dangerously long working hours in 2016.
In just a few seconds, a gamma-ray burst blasts out the same amount of energy that the Sun will radiate throughout its entire life.
Each year, several trillion pounds of microscopic silicon-based skeletons fall down the water column to pile up into siliceous ooze.
Give yourself (and others) a break.
Has the "age of psychopharmacology” shrunk society’s sense of responsibility for mental health?
Ancient bones reveal that domesticated felines were at home in Pre-Neolithic Poland around 8,000 years ago.
Millennials are reversing a 40-year decline in stroke deaths.
Despite being called the "dismal science," economics impacts our lives every day. Here, we look at seven of the greatest economists in history.
A new study of global love finds that Americans have some of the most loving relationships, while Chinese and Germans have some of the least.
A conversation with an advanced alien species is likely to be simple and to take 1,000 years. It might also be dangerous.
"Once quantum mechanics is applied to the entire cosmos, it uncovers a three-thousand-year-old idea."
Pathogenic, self-propagating proteins called prions found in the brains of people with Alzheimer's are also found in Down syndrome patients.
From COVID and cancer vaccines to a steady drop in the number of people living in extreme poverty, there are reasons for optimism in 2023.