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Male inequality — the enormous cultural shift happening right under our nose.

The Universe begins with negligible amounts of angular momentum, which is always conserved. So why do planets, stars, and galaxies all spin?

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.

A new technique for analyzing networks can tell who wields soft power.

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.

"Rational vaccinology" could lead to effective cancer vaccines.

A cute mathematical trick can "rescale" the Universe so that it isn't actually expanding. But can that "trick" survive all our cosmic tests?

Will we ever unravel the mystery of consciousness? Two academics made a 25-year bet on it. The scientist lost.

Although many dinosaurs never left the ground, they still possessed the basic structural framework for flight.

Despite the wide diversity of spider species, most orb-weavers seem to follow the same playbook when building their webs.

How do “you” emerge from a collection of cells? A biologist explains.

Before we formed stars, atoms, elements, or even got rid of our antimatter, the Big Bang made neutrinos. And we finally found them.

Smarter building materials can control indoor temperatures without external power.

Vanadium dioxide is a strange material that "remembers" information and when it was stored. This is akin to biological memory.

Quantum uncertainty and wave-particle duality are big features of quantum physics. But without Pauli's rule, our Universe wouldn't exist.

We know more about the universe than what is beneath our feet. But Earth's mantle holds subtle clues about our planet's past.

Quantum wormholes are mathematically possible — but might also be physically impossible. Physicist Janna Levin explains Hawking’s famous information paradox.

Every proton contains three quarks: two up and one down. But charm quarks, heavier than the proton itself, have been found inside. How?

The knobby starfish skeleton has diamond-like properties and could inspire new designs for lightweight, highly resilient ceramics, with widespread applications in engineering and construction.

You can’t farm spiders — but putting spider genes into silkworms works even better.

It’s not just fun: DNA origami has the potential to revolutionize engineering at the nanoscopic scale.

Understanding Mezirow’s theory of transformative learning can help you become a catalyst of change.

Why I was prepared to hate The Structure of Scientific Revolutions but ended up loving it.

Try writing a novel without using the letter "e."

A unique combination of DNA and silica is the strongest known material for its density (but you’ll need a lot of it before you can build a suit from it).

“This will be one of the most important datasets since the mapping of the Human Genome.”

In the future, driving an app across a bridge could let engineers know how safe it is.

On larger and larger scales, many of the same structures we see at small ones repeat themselves. Do we live in a fractal Universe?

If the "self" is not real, then we are slaves to a billiard ball universe, trapped in a nihilistic nightmare in which we cannot change our fate.