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Architect and brand innovator Kevin Ervin Kelley sounds the alarm for workplace culture — and argues for a “big bang” collision of forms and shapes.
The length of a day oscillates slightly every six years. This was a surprising discovery made last decade. We might now know why.
Setting resolutions for the new year means you think the future is up to you — but is it?
Nietzsche both wished he was as stupid as a cow so he wouldn’t have to contemplate existence, and pitied cows for being so stupid that they couldn’t contemplate existence.
As we gain new knowledge, our scientific picture of how the Universe works must evolve. This is a feature of the Big Bang, not a bug.
If you think of the Big Bang as an explosion, we can trace it back to a single point-of-origin. But what if it happened everywhere at once?
A 2020 study revived a longstanding controversy over Christopher Columbus’ claims of marauding cannibals in the Caribbean.
For many years, cosmologists have claimed the Universe is 13.8 billion years old. A new paper says no, it’s 26.7 billion. How do we decide?
A conservator from the Rijksmuseum explains how they went about investigating whether the painting is a genuine Rembrandt.
Do our thoughts have any meaning whatsoever?
Glueballs are an unusual, unconfirmed Standard Model prediction, suggesting bound states of gluons alone exist. We just found our first one.
These 10 best practices can help organizations develop high-quality and engaging training videos for employees.
A philosophy of birth can offset the prevailing narrative around extinction and mortality.
A longstanding mismatch between theory and experiment motivated an exquisite muon measurement. At last, a theoretical solution has arrived.
You can’t control external threats, but you can manage how you prepare and respond to the risk.
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It started with a bang, but won’t end with one. Instead, it will “rage against the dying of the light” like nothing you’ve ever imagined.
Is history decided by discernible laws or does it unfold based on random, unpredictable occurrences?
These initially sympathetic characters take readers down a dark path.
In our Universe, all stable atomic nuclei have protons in them; there’s no stable “neutronium” at all. But what’s the reason why?
When the average person has a “theory,” they’re just guessing. But for a scientist, a theory is the pinnacle of what we can achieve.
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Positivity psychologist, lecturer and author Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar shares techniques on how to unlock happiness at work.
On New Year’s Eve 1899, the captain of this Pacific steamliner sailed into history. Or did he?
In 2017, we detected gold being forged in a neutron star-neutron star merger. Now, in 2024, the amounts created simply don’t add up.
Over 50 years since humans last walked on the Moon, astronaut footprints and rover tracks are still visible. But they won’t last forever.
We cannot afford to dream about living on other worlds while we continue to destroy ours.
Society treats teenagers as if they’re a problem to be solved, but the truth is that we have to prepare them to solve our problems. It’s time that we change the narrative.
Who should be compensated?
Between the instability of the real estate market and cryptocurrency fluctuations, everyone has been talking about bubbles. But what are they, really?
Some of them have survived the wilds of space for billions of years.