Speculation about the existence of aliens goes all the way back at least to the Greek philosophers. Their arguments will sound familiar.
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Five times in U.S. history, American presidential candidates have ascended to leadership despite lacking the popular vote. Here’s how.
Napoleon Bonaparte was a man of many faces. European historian Michael Broers explains which are featured on the silver screen and why.
Einstein called his idea “abominable,” but the world of physics came around to embracing the views of Georges Lemaître.
In all of science, no figures have changed the world more than Einstein and Newton. Will anyone ever be as revolutionary again?
Before there were planets, stars, and galaxies, before even neutral atoms or stable protons, there was the Big Bang. How did we prove it?
The use of the letter x as an unknown is a relatively modern convention.
We have become the greatest threat to ourselves and to life on this planet. We need a set of agreed-upon safeguards to preserve our future.
If life is common in the Universe, then where is everybody? Known as the Fermi Paradox, a new project may help solve the riddle.
There are almost no standards governing the cannabis industry. Your favorite weed strain may contain unpleasant surprises.
In many city-states, it was perfectly acceptable for older men to have sexual relationships with young boys.
Millennials — who were raised to expect unlimited success but found only disappointment — can be drawn to manifestation.
We may have discovered alien life already but rejected the evidence too quickly because it seemed false at first glance.
Literature’s first utopia shows how far we’ve come.
There could be variables beyond the ones we’ve identified and know how to measure. But they can’t get rid of quantum weirdness.
A new, easy-to-use, $5-device helps address male infertility. It isolates healthy sperm cells based on their natural behavior.
In pre-War Cambridge, students had to ace an interview with Ludwig Wittgenstein to attend his lectures — Alan Turing passed that test, and went on to create one of his own.
It’s not just fun: DNA origami has the potential to revolutionize engineering at the nanoscopic scale.
Can two planets stably share the same orbit? Conventional wisdom says no, but a look at Saturn’s moons might tell a different story.
The debate goes back at least 400 years.
Fathers’ brains adjust their structure and function to parenthood.
The history of hell doesn’t begin with the Old Testament. Instead, hell took shape in the 2nd century from Mediterranean cultural exchange.
We have two descriptions of the Universe that work perfectly well: General Relativity and quantum physics. Too bad they don’t work together.
This map samples some of the digits that make up the DDC system, invented by the brilliant but flawed Melvil Dewey.
In order to figure out how English might evolve in the future, we have to look at how it has changed in the near and distant past.
There’s the textbook answer, then there’s the real answer.
Neuroscientists and artists alike are making the case that we could transform the world through psychedelics.
We rightly celebrate Winston Churchill as one of the world’s greatest leaders — but for all the wrong reasons.
Some 13.8 billion years ago, the Universe became hot, dense, and filled with high-energy quanta all at once. Here’s what it was like.