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Presidential gravesites are spread out “democratically” — but this is more by accident than design.

If you think everyone around you is terrible, the joke may be on you.

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.

The writer’s tragic death at age 46 has led many to view him as a tortured artist. Here’s why this label is reductive.

There are different types of atheism and atheists. In general, they can be classified as the non-religious, the non-believers, and agnostics.

The light from Earendel took 12.9 billion years to reach Hubble. The star is millions of times brighter than our Sun and 50 times as massive.

Everyone has to learn about sex somehow. Today, billions of people are learning about it from porn.

These composers channeled the horror of the Holocaust and Hiroshima while honoring those who lived through it.

“Time Warp” all the way back to 1800s spiritualism, magic performances, and spook shows.

Mary Toft staged an elaborate hoax, but the pain was real.

Symbolic gestures often speak to our psyche in ways no rational action could ever speak to our intellect.

Gravitation, all on its own, can reveal what’s present in the cosmos like nothing else.

One award was for a medical procedure that incapacitated thousands of people.

There are dozens of instructional design models, but most learning designers rely on a select few. Here are four of the most common.

Think therapy is self-centered? Think again.

The early colonists thought they were being pulled by God into a void left by plague.

The most important events in history have nothing to do with politics or wars.

After 70 years, “The Power of Positive Thinking” remains incredibly popular, even though its critics find the book to be mostly fluff.

Science continues to amplify our view of reality.

Astronomers possibly solve the mystery of how the enormous Oort cloud, with over 100 billion comet-like objects, was formed.

If something is “true,” it needs to be shown to work in the real world.

The controversy over the universe’s expansion rate continues with a new, faster estimate.

The author of classics like “A Farewell to Arms” and “The Sun Also Rises” is known and loved for his simple yet effective writing style. Here’s how to imitate it.

The Assam stone jars were described as early as 1929. Almost a century later, archaeologists still puzzle over their placement and purpose.

“We’re acting more like fans of a football team going to a game than a banker carefully choosing investments.”

About 150 million years ago, a long-necked sauropod came down with a respiratory infection. The rest is history…or is it? 

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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?

Movie soundtracks don’t just help us recall the plot of a film; they also allow us to better understand its meaning.

With sodium-sensitive eyes, we’d see it every new Moon. With no detectable gases, the Moon appears to be atmosphere-free. The Moon as seen from a view above the majority of Earth’s […]