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Physicists have yet to pinpoint the hypothetical matter that keeps galaxies from flying apart. Now they have a new focus.

St Nick had a history of teleporting long before needing to reach all the world’s children in one night.

Now that the DSM lists severe hoarding as a disorder apart from OCD, psychologists are asking what explains its prevalence.

We need more data centers for AI. Developers are getting creative about where to build them.

Small spiders use their silk threads to passively fly, a process called ballooning. Learning how could help atmospheric scientists.

New research finds that dinosaurs were already adapted to living in cold climates before the end-Triassic mass extinction. But how?

OmnesViae is a modern route planner based on the roads of the Roman Empire.

No amount of success can overcome imposter syndrome without a mindset geared toward growth.

Is history decided by discernible laws or does it unfold based on random, unpredictable occurrences?

Everything acts like a wave while it propagates, but behaves like a particle whenever it interacts. The origins of this duality go way back.

The zebras were originally part of a newspaper tycoon’s private zoo. Now they roam the San Simeon grasslands, growing in numbers. 

Ketamine’s remarkable effect bolsters a new theory of mental illness.

Human beings are descendants of these early tetrapods – at least those who made a new life on land.

These core teachings make an ideal starting point for exploring Buddhist philosophy.

When you wish upon a star, it probably makes a difference who you are.

A famous explorer’s doomed ship is finally found 107 years after it was lost to the Antarctic deep.

All marbled crayfish descended from a single clone discovered in Heidelberg, Germany in 1995. 

The most celebrated genius in human history didn’t just revolutionize physics, but taught many valuable lessons about living a better life.

It’s possible to measure philosophy’s progress in two ways. But is that really the point?

Nearly 2000 years ago, Mt. Vesuvius erupted, burying Pompeii but incinerating Herculaneum. The most lethal volcanic phenomenon is at fault.

Solving the supply chain crisis before the global economy tanks is going to require many creative approaches. Flexport’s Ryan Petersen has one that just might work.

Only recently have scientists directly witnessed this most pivotal of events in biology.

Compared to Earth, Mars is small, cold, dry, and lifeless. But 3.4 billion years ago, a killer asteroid caused a Martian megatsunami.

It’s early days, but if the efforts can be efficiently scaled-up, such biological recycling could put a dent in the plastic waste problem.

It’s not just keeping you from getting lost.

The Bolsheviks may have created Ukraine’s current borders, but that doesn’t mean dismantling them is good for today’s Russia.

An interactive “globe of notability” shows the curious correspondences and the strange landscape of global fame.

Once a cosmopolitan faith, Islam valued intellectualism and modernity. It was derailed by various geopolitical and religious forces.

Using the Book of Mormon as a sacred but ambiguous atlas, the Latter-day Saints have been looking for the lost city of Zarahemla for decades.

Whenever the climate cooled, our hominin ancestors would set up shop in the Arabian Peninsula and vanish again when the planet warmed up.