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When you don’t have enough clues to bring your detective story to a close, you should expect that your educated guesses will all be wrong.
Whether you call it 10 quintillion, 10 million trillion, or 10 billion billion, it’s a 1 followed by 19 zeroes.
Nuclear fusion has long been seen as the future of energy. As the NIF now passes the breakeven point, how close are we to our ultimate goal?
For the fewer than 50 people with this blood type, finding a blood transfusion could be extremely difficult.
By studying the oldest animals, researchers hope to pinpoint factors affecting human longevity.
A woman’s name would undermine the credibility of the mission. Names of former Nazis, however, were no problem.
While many imagine terrifying futures run by AI, Rohit Krishnan is quietly identifying real problems and solutions.
In 1974, Hawking showed that black holes aren’t stable, but emit radiation and decay. Nearly 50 years later, it isn’t just for black holes.
The father of relativity understood that “not everything that counts can be counted” — as do today’s most impactful leaders.
It’s simple to make, easy to use, and should work against any variant.
While most participants fibbed a little bit, laptop users were much more likely to lie – and by a lot more.
Smashing things together at unprecedented energies sounds dangerous. But it’s nothing the Universe hasn’t already seen, and survived.
Carnivorous plants fascinate as much now as when their gruesome diet was first discovered.
Learning and development leaders can play a key role in fostering inclusion in the workplace, improving creativity and innovation in the process.
Daydreaming can be a pleasant pastime, but people who suffer from maladaptive daydreaming are trapped by their fantasies.
Kahneman was a world-changing psychologist — even with his lesser known ideas on life satisfaction.
It’s simpler, more compact, and reusable from year-to-year in a way that no other calendar is. Here’s both how it works and how to use it.
What do we mean by a black hole’s size? A photon sphere? The minimal stable orbit? The event horizon? The singularity? Which one is right?
We commonly stereotype psychopaths as criminals, but there are probably more in upper management.
Great writing can unveil the criminal psyche better than any other artistic medium.
Evil is easy to identify and fight against; not so with stupidity.
When we view hard work as a sign of low aptitude, it harms our ability to learn and grow.
Today, we could use Big Data to radically reform democracy. Tomorrow, we could build nanofabricators and usher in an era of abundance. Is society ready?
Why dispelling the notion that it’s all about getting the correct answer is so powerful.
The lithium-ion alternatives could help create a safer, greener future.
A-list lessons for better work-life collaboration — direct from the movie set.
The detection of two celestial interlopers careening through our solar system has scientists eagerly anticipating more.
Ketamine’s remarkable effect bolsters a new theory of mental illness.
The true story of the shot that “reverberated through England” when science collided head-on with religion.