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Like many of us, the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius hated waking up early, but his stoic philosophy always helped him get out of bed.
Millions of people have had a near-death experience, and it often leads them to believe in an afterlife. Does this count as good proof?
We each have the same 24 hours in the day. How will you spend yours?
A volley of new insights reignites the debate over whether our choices are ever truly our own.
When battles raged in ancient cities, their rocks blazed so brightly that they could be reoriented according to Earth's magnetic field.
How to say, "In many ways, Proust is similar to Joyce" and get away with it.
Omer Bartov, who spent decades studying the unspeakable horrors of genocide, shares how his studies have impacted his own mental health.
The first stars took tens or even hundreds of millions of years to form, and then died in the cosmic blink of an eye. Here's how.
These hard-to-finish books are still worth the effort.
From how life emerged on Earth to why we dream, these unanswered questions continue to perplex scientists.
When you own your career, work becomes more than a means to an end — it becomes a vehicle for growth and happiness.
Physicists have yet to pinpoint the hypothetical matter that keeps galaxies from flying apart. Now they have a new focus.
A sober look at a wild conspiracy theory that argues the Middle Ages never happened.
In pre-War Cambridge, students had to ace an interview with Ludwig Wittgenstein to attend his lectures — Alan Turing passed that test, and went on to create one of his own.
A controversial new philosophy paper tries to bring our moral prejudices to heel. Should it?
Thanks to observations of gravitational waves, scientists were able to settle a longstanding debate over the speed of gravity.
Misinformation was extremely popular in 2023, as bad science often made global headlines. Learn the truth behind these 10 dubious stories.
The problem with today’s AI isn’t it thinking for itself; it’s the tech telling humans whatever we want to hear.
These theoretical megastructures represent one way an advanced civilization might harvest energy from stars.
While Taoism can be paradoxical and abstract, it also offers daily life lessons.
Acting "little and often" has huge consequences and they're not always good — but awareness yields solutions.
From "The Castle of Otranto" to "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, these books changed the literary landscape.
Narnia and early Middle-earth were pancake-esque — but their creators took differing views on de-globalization.
For generations, physicists have been searching for a quantum theory of gravity. But what if gravity isn't actually quantum at all?
Your life’s memories could, in principle, be stored in the universe’s structure.
The volcano’s historic eruption preserved an ancient library, but rendered its content illegible. A public competition aims to change that.
The essential element needed for innovation is creative dissonance — and the keys to unlocking it were forged by bankers in Italy.
The brilliant mind who discovered the spacetime solution for rotating black holes claims singularities don't physically exist. Is he right?