One study suggested that the “Methuselah Star” is older than the Universe itself.
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.
Addicted to spending money you want to save? Here’s how to stop.
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Capacitors, acid batteries, and other methods of storing electric charges all lose energy over time. These gravity-fed batteries won’t.
The Centennial State is technically a hexahectaenneacontakaiheptagon.
Each year, several trillion pounds of microscopic silicon-based skeletons fall down the water column to pile up into siliceous ooze.
When we don’t find ways to relieve chronic stress, personal burnout is the likely consequence.
Make it simple. Make it clear. Make it stick. Alan Alda on how to get everyone to understand your thoughts.
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Give yourself (and others) a break.
Humanity’s newest, most powerful space telescope is performing even better than predicted. The reason why is unprecedented.
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.
Once activated, the CRISPR-Cas12a2 system goes on a rampage, chopping up DNA and RNA indiscriminately, causing cell death.
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.
It may be possible to give people the tools to withstand difficulty before it attaches to them.
A conversation with an advanced alien species is likely to be simple and to take 1,000 years. It might also be dangerous.
Strategy advisor Roger Martin explains how 2,000 year old military thinking is useful in modern business strategy.
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If life is common in the Universe, then where is everybody? Known as the Fermi Paradox, a new project may help solve the riddle.
Individual space telescopes, like Hubble and JWST, revolutionized our knowledge of the Universe. What if we had an array of them, instead?
Einstein tried to disprove quantum mechanics. Instead, a weird concept called entanglement showed that Einstein was wrong.
Day trading has the potential to yield incredible profits, but without a time machine, you’re unlikely to achieve them.
“Once quantum mechanics is applied to the entire cosmos, it uncovers a three-thousand-year-old idea.”
The information we have in the Universe is finite and limited, but our curiosity and wonder is forever insatiable. And always will be.
“For every PhD there is an equal and opposite PhD.”
The central equation of quantum mechanics, the Schrödinger equation, is different from the equations found in classical physics.
The best-laid plans of mice and everyone else.
Pathogenic, self-propagating proteins called prions found in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s are also found in Down syndrome patients.