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The very concept of a "problem with no solution" goes against human nature. But we must accept this harsh reality to have peace in our lives.
Africa has the most universities in the 2022 rankings with over two thirds of the world’s youngest universities.
If dark matter exists in a large halo in our galaxy, made up of particles, then it's passing through us constantly. But how much?
“What am I missing?” is a question that journalist Mónica Guzmán thinks more people should start asking.
Think therapy is self-centered? Think again.
When we fail to help in a bad situation, we are morally responsible. So, why don't we pick up others' litter?
More than any other of Einstein's equations, E = mc² is the most recognizable to people. But what does it all mean?
Adult learning theory is a guidepost for designing training for maximum engagement.
Graphical user interfaces are how most of us interact with computers, from iPhones to laptops. But they were once condemned as making students lazy and destroying the art of writing.
George Washington, for example, was quite happy to engage in deception, if that deception would help protect the United States.
Socrates lived during a time when people did not strive to separate fact from fiction. So how much of what we know about Socrates is true?
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People rarely question their own moral compass. But do you know what shapes yours?
John Templeton Foundation
In "Off the Edge", journalist Kelly Weill dives down the strange rabbit hole of the flat-Earther community.
Online Shinto communities have existed since the birth of the internet as we know it.
A lot of research assumes happiness is measured by comfort and material conditions. For Aristotle, it is about being the best we can be.
In theory, history is the sum of everything that ever happened; in practice, it’s a story we tell ourselves to make sense of and justify our actions in the present.
Is the multiverse real? It's one of the hottest questions in all of theoretical physics. We invited two astrophysicists to join the debate.
Life is possible because of asymmetries, such as an imbalance between matter and antimatter and the "handedness" (chirality) of molecules.
One particular revolution was so important, that at least one historian thinks the 20th century officially began in 1914 and ended in 1991.
Using the Book of Mormon as a sacred but ambiguous atlas, the Latter-day Saints have been looking for the lost city of Zarahemla for decades.
This century alone has already had a couple of Onesdays (1/11/11 and 11/11/11).
The gaze of another person can make us conceive of our body as an object.
Soviet researchers studied crime through a Marxist-Leninist lens. Under Lenin, a humanitarian approach to criminality briefly emerged, but dissipated when Stalin rose to power.
Many animals practice what looks like self-medication. A new report suggests that chimps tend wounds with insects, often treating each other.
If the electromagnetic and weak forces unify to make the electroweak force, maybe, at even higher energies, something even greater happens?
Painkillers have nasty side effects, such as organ damage or addiction. Researchers have discovered a new drug that may cause none of these.
After it became clear that the world wasn't 6,000 years old, some proposed that northern peoples had emerged independently from others.
Lake Baikal holds nearly one-fourth of Earth's fresh surface water and is the most scientifically interesting lake on our planet.
With 1550 distinct type Ia supernovae measured across ~10 billion years of cosmic time, the Pantheon+ data set reveals our Universe.