The Trojan War was fought in Finland and Ulysses sailed home to Denmark, says one controversial theory.
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The topical gene therapy could one day help millions regain their vision.
These theoretical megastructures represent one way an advanced civilization might harvest energy from stars.
No one is teaching us how to be online. That’s a problem.
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We rightly celebrate Winston Churchill as one of the world’s greatest leaders — but for all the wrong reasons.
At least one of Earth’s creatures is able to survive the vacuum of space.
Much like energy and nutrients flow in a continuous cycle between the elements of a natural ecosystem, a free flow of knowledge fuels the growth of a learning ecosystem.
One award was for a medical procedure that incapacitated thousands of people.
How one man’s divine dream became a poultry-shaped reality.
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.
One possible vision of the distant future.
Is science destined to crack the code of consciousness—and how would we even go about it?
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Fortune cookies emerged from one of America’s darkest moments.
On New Year’s Eve 1899, the captain of this Pacific steamliner sailed into history. Or did he?
Robots must identify themselves.
Nero’s reputation as one of the most malevolent emperors in Roman history might be partly slander.
There’s such thing as a healthy sense of pride in oneself and one’s accomplishments.
“Uitwaaien” is a popular activity around Amsterdam—one believed to have important psychological benefits.
If you find yourself on one of these roads, it might be a while before you see another fellow traveler.
The question of why the Universe is the way it is is an ancient one, and none of the answers we have come up with are satisfying.
Nothing meaningful is done quickly.
A long-maligned treatment outperforms the trendy one.
Almost 18,000 projects, brought together on one clickable map.
Although many of Einstein’s papers revolutionized physics, there’s one Einsteinian advance, generally, that towers over all the rest.
There’s no escaping the death of loved ones. But that doesn’t mean we’re powerless in the wake of loss.
“Painfully forced” is how one contemporary critic described Fitzgerald’s writing style.
One study suggested that the “Methuselah Star” is older than the Universe itself.
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.
George Orwell got it right: “Never use a long word where a short one will do.”