For billions of years on Earth, life was limited to simple unicellular, non-differentiated organisms. In a mere flash, that changed forever.
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Heart muscle is shaped like a spiral, a mystery that has eluded scientists since 1669. New research has recreated the structure.
Back during the hot Big Bang, it wasn’t just charged particles and photons that were created, but also neutrinos. Where are they now?
The Universe isn’t just expanding, the expansion is also accelerating. If that’s true, how will the Milky Way and Andromeda eventually merge?
The pattern 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, etc., is the Fibonacci sequence. It shows up all over nature. But what’s the full explanation behind it?
Your organization won’t become a “data democracy” organically — shared knowledge is key.
While one may be helpful, the other may be harmful.
In physics, we reduce things to their elementary, fundamental components, and build emergent things out of them. That’s not the full story.
Symmetrical objects are less complex than non-symmetrical ones. Perhaps evolution acts as an algorithm with a bias toward simplicity.
Skilled hunters adapted to the changing landscape and left tantalizing clues to who they were.
High-frequency oscillations that ripple through our brains may generate memory and conscious experience.
We are prone to false memories. One reason is that we are biased toward remembering tidy endings for events, even if they didn’t exist.
The cathedral is being explored as never before.
The classic picture of Jupiter’s great rocky core might be entirely wrong.
These high-mass, rapidly star-forming galaxies have called modern cosmology into question. But hi-res simulations show no tension at all.
Male inequality — the enormous cultural shift happening right under our nose.
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The L&D team at S&P Global discuss how they build a culture of learning at their organization.
AI looks like a natural and inevitable fit for business coaching — but some humans are wary. Here are the pros and cons.
A cute mathematical trick can “rescale” the Universe so that it isn’t actually expanding. But can that “trick” survive all our cosmic tests?
Today, the star-formation rate across the Universe is a mere trickle: just 3% of what it was at its peak. Here’s what it was like back then.
Will we ever unravel the mystery of consciousness? Two academics made a 25-year bet on it. The scientist lost.
Instead of worshipping Yahweh, the devotees were perhaps dedicated to Mars and Jupiter.
“Rational vaccinology” could lead to effective cancer vaccines.
Archaeologist Bernard Frischer spent decades uploading the ruins of the Eternal City to the cloud. Here’s what it looks like.
How do “you” emerge from a collection of cells? A biologist explains.
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Smarter building materials can control indoor temperatures without external power.
It’s not just fun: DNA origami has the potential to revolutionize engineering at the nanoscopic scale.
The Universe begins with negligible amounts of angular momentum, which is always conserved. So why do planets, stars, and galaxies all spin?
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The L&D team at Chick-fil-A share how they develop their frontline leaders and engage learners at all levels of their organization.
Quantum wormholes are mathematically possible — but might also be physically impossible. Physicist Janna Levin explains Hawking’s famous information paradox.
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