Art criticism is inherently subjective. Still, many critics have tried to make a case for why some of the world’s most celebrated books are in fact terribly written.
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Meet the masterful con-men who impressed the great and the good despite the astonishing fiction of their very existence.
The first recorded brain activity of a person during their death suggests a biological trigger for near-death experiences.
For generations, physicists have been searching for a quantum theory of gravity. But what if gravity isn’t actually quantum at all?
Being a jerk gets you rich, promoted, and laid (if you’re a man). But there is a downside.
The preservation and celebration of life, and not greed, should be our primary decision-making value.
Looking at our planet with post-Copernican eyes has the power to change how we relate to it and each other.
The fellowship’s journey through Middle-Earth mirrors the modernization of the English countryside.
A poignant, 2,000-year-old burial in northern Italy could be the latest evidence of an ancient friendship.
Beer before wine and you’ll feel fine? Well, it depends.
Here’s what recent DESI measurements suggest — and why it’s too early to update conventional predictions about the Universe’s distant future.
Forensic researchers call such places “limited access environments.”
One hypothesis: “gossip traps.”
Even with the quantum rules governing the Universe, there are limits to what matter can withstand. Beyond that, black holes are unavoidable.
Laser-guided lightning systems could someday offer much greater protection than lightning rods.
Since the 1980s, engineered monoclonal antibodies have been knocking out invading germs. Sperm may be next.
If you gave me $400 and I gave you $3.15, would you consider yourself wealthier? That’s a financial analogy for the supposed fusion power “breakthrough.”
Time to rewrite our understanding of structural engineering.
How humans came to feel comfortable among strangers, like those in a café, is an under-explored mystery.
Not even Einstein immediately knew the power of the equations he gave us.
Nature may not allow us full access to the weirdness of quantum mechanics.
Everything we observe beyond our Local Group is speeding away from us, omnidirectionally. If the Universe is expanding, where is the center?
Nuclear fusion has long been seen as the future of energy. As the NIF now passes the breakeven point, how close are we to our ultimate goal?
We only detected our very first gravitational wave in 2015. Over the next two decades, we’ll have thousands more.
By exposing people to small doses of misinformation and encouraging them to develop resistance strategies, “prebunking” can fight fake news.
Before there were planets, stars, and galaxies, before even neutral atoms or stable protons, there was the Big Bang. How did we prove it?
Decades of Alzheimer’s research might have missed a cellular culprit hiding in plain sight.
We thought the Big Bang started it all. Then we realized that something else came before, and it erased everything that existed prior.
Pathogenic, self-propagating proteins called prions found in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s are also found in Down syndrome patients.