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Why does Seattle continue to be a place that nurtures the development of breakthrough technologies but not Minneapolis, Memphis, or Minsk?
If you truly want to understand modern astrophysics, knowing how to read this graph is essential.
Movie soundtracks don’t just help us recall the plot of a film; they also allow us to better understand its meaning.
Information may not seem like something physical, yet it has become a central concern for physicists. A wonderful new book explores the importance of the “dataome” for the physical, biological, and human worlds.
Living simply now strikes many people as simply boring.
Long before Alexandria became the center of Egyptian trade, there was Thônis-Heracleion. But then it sank.
Awe is a powerful force, a fact that is both exciting and terrifying.
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Spirituality can be an uncomfortable word for atheists. But does it deserve the antagonism that it gets?
Death is the great and terrifying unknown, awaiting us all at the end of this life. Giving it a personality makes it easier to gaze upon.
Mastodons, rhinos, and even camels — all in the great state of California.
“What am I missing?” is a question that journalist Mónica Guzmán thinks more people should start asking.
The Black Death wasn’t the only plague in the 1300s.
Nikolaas Tinbergen’s concept of “supernormal stimulus” explains why humans are attracted to a heightened version of reality.
This everyday electrical phenomenon had no widely accepted scientific explanation — perhaps, until now.
Is the cult of youth what we really want trailing us into the afterlife?
When people pick the greatest scientist of all-time, Newton and Einstein always come up. Perhaps they should name Johannes Kepler, instead.
There are so many problems, all across planet Earth, that harm and threaten humanity. Why invest in researching the Universe?
Searching for dark matter, the XENON collaboration found absolutely nothing out of the ordinary. Here’s why that’s an extraordinary feat.
In-depth research suggests BDSM practitioners can experience altered states of consciousness that can be therapeutic.
Finland reveals that happiness is more about mindset than umbrella drinks and sun-warmed beaches.
Ultrarunning is a celebration of living and a rehearsal of dying all rolled up in a single intense experience.
Wander into the deep recesses of the mind and never return the same with these existentialist books.
Scientists have been chasing the dream of harnessing the reactions that power the Sun since the dawn of the atomic era. Interest, and investment, in the carbon-free energy source is heating up.
By taking Satan out of the religious context, storytellers explored the nature of sin in new ways.
Nietzsche both wished he was as stupid as a cow so he wouldn’t have to contemplate existence, and pitied cows for being so stupid that they couldn’t contemplate existence.
Albert Einstein and his theory of general relativity continue to amaze us to this day.
To understand ourselves and our place in the universe, “we should have humility but also self-respect,” Frank Wilczek writes in a new book.
We can’t ask them, so scientists have devised an experiment.