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It might seem petty and shallow to get upset over a bad gift, but there's often a deeper reason behind the feeling.
After 10,000 years of civilization, have we figured out what virtue is?
The Universe begins with negligible amounts of angular momentum, which is always conserved. So why do planets, stars, and galaxies all spin?
More than 1,000 years ago, Mesoamerican societies conducted one of history's most interesting experiments in commodity money.
Million Stories
Many were expecting extremism survivor and free speech advocate Salman Rushdie to take home the Nobel Prize in Literature, but Annie Ernaux beat him to it.
Einstein always loses in the quantum realm.
Venerated astrophysicist Carl Sagan entertained the possibility.
Before we discovered gravitational waves, multi-messenger astronomy got its start with light and particles arriving from the same event.
There's no escaping the death of loved ones. But that doesn't mean we're powerless in the wake of loss.
Uncertainty is inherent to our Universe.
This is a perversion of justice.
We can never hope for a future with no problems. The solutions to problems create new problems, which in turn require new solutions, as WIRED founder Kevin Kelly explained recently.
Fiona Broome remembered Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the 1980s (he didn't). Oddly, many people had the same false memory.
People think that unhappiness causes our minds to wander, but what if the causation goes the other way?
They say that nobody understands quantum mechanics. But thanks to these three pioneers in quantum entanglement, perhaps we do.
Every Christmas could be the last Christmas.
The "attention economy" corrupts science.
"Salvator Mundi" sold for a record-breaking $450 million in 2017, but is it really as valuable as people were led to believe?
In the 20th century, many options abounded as to our cosmic origins. Today, only the Big Bang survives, thanks to this critical evidence.
Reading between the lines of Dorothy’s adventure to the Emerald City.
Million Stories
Women have made incredible gains into STEM fields, but they continue to face gender biases in the workplace.
Sigmund Freud developed the decidedly unscientific principles of psychoanalysis in a time when most psychologists were trying to join the ranks of chemists and medical doctors.
The Big Bang is commonly misunderstood, warping our understanding about the Universe's size and shape.
Scallop shells have accompanied pilgrims to and from Santiago de Compostela for centuries, for more than one reason
We could even benefit from more whataboutisms — if they're used properly.
Meaningful pictures are assembled from meaningless noise.
How drugs, demons, and the search for immortality gave us words we use everyday.
Synthetic biology has the power to cure and kill. Have we learned from our past mistakes?
Just as human beings diversified so that people in Asia look different from people in Europe, so too did their microbiomes.