We rightly celebrate Winston Churchill as one of the world’s greatest leaders — but for all the wrong reasons.
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A 1.5-million-year-old hominin bone shows signs that the victim was eaten by lions — and humans.
Quarterback Tom Brady was initially overlooked by NFL scouts, but he had vast hidden reserves of character.
The fellowship’s journey through Middle-earth mirrors the modernization of the English countryside.
Each year, over half a million migrants cross the deadly jungle separating Colombia from Panama in search of a better life in the United States.
A controversial new philosophy paper tries to bring our moral prejudices to heel. Should it?
On July 4, we celebrate the tenth anniversary of the discovery of the Higgs boson, the missing piece of the Standard Model of particle physics.
If you don’t mourn in North Korea, you risk being executed.
Some effective altruists “earn to give” — they make as much money as they can and then donate most of it to charities.
Don’t argue with science. Just do it.
Individuals and organizations can maintain a strong and enduring identity by repeatedly remaking themselves.
Thanks to protocols established centuries ago in Europe, world leaders no longer need to worry about having their heads bashed with an axe.
You know that ghostly feeling that someone is nearby even though nobody is? It could be a trick of neural timing.
The tech world’s fixation on artificial intelligence has spawned beliefs and rituals that resemble religion — complete with digital deities, moral codes, and threats of damnation.
More than 90 percent of people make a mistake on this test.
To Fred Hoyle, the Big Bang was nothing more than a creationist myth. 75 years later, it’s cemented as the beginning of our Universe.
When cosmic inflation came to an end, the hot Big Bang ensued as a result. If our cosmic vacuum state decays, could it all happen again?
Predicted way back in the 1960s, the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 completed the Standard Model. Here’s why it remains fascinating.
Since the mid-1960s, the CMB has been identified with the Big Bang’s leftover glow. Could any alternative explanations still work?
Computers are growing more powerful and more capable, but everything has limits
When you bring two fingers together, you can feel them “touch” each other. But are your atoms really touching, and if so, how?
To answer that question, we may have to figure out when the famed painter started to go bald.
Maybe bring an umbrella just in case.
An enormous amount of antimatter is coming from our galactic center. But the culprit probably isn’t dark matter, but merely neutron stars.
“If you’re training an AI to optimize for a task, and deception is a good way for it to complete the task, then there’s a good chance that it will use deception.”
About 1 in 5 adults now say they have no religious affiliation, up from 1 in 50 in 1960.
Even if a balloon flies directly overhead, attempting to shoot it down with a conventional firearm is stupid, ineffective, and dangerous.
Research suggests that emotional intelligence is more vital for success than IQ.
Just like with AI, people worried about job security and the spread of disinformation. Machines were destroyed and book merchants were chased out of town.