People around the world, mostly Generation Z, are obsessed with the look and feel of gothic, elitist universities. Why?
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If computers can beat us at chess, maybe they could beat us at math, too.
Nearly 200 orbital launches are scheduled for 2022.
Any dataset that can be quantified over time can be turned into a contest that is both exciting and (a little bit) enlightening.
In a world without "bullshit jobs," we would have more hours available to us to learn new skills and to unleash our creative side.
The gospels imply that Jesus became famous as much for his exorcisms as his ministry.
Psychologists point to specific reasons that make it hard for us to admit our wrongdoing.
"You gotta know when to fold 'em."
Ingenuity is remarkable. But these 5 exploration ideas are revolutionary. Telescopes are our initial tools for revealing and studying foreign worlds. Hubble images of Mars, particularly around the regions with […]
From "shell shock" to "combat fatigue," the wars of the past century have violently illuminated the power trauma can wield over the mind and body.
The number of PhDs has been exceeding the available academic positions since as early as the mid-1990s.
Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York is the kind of film that makes you laugh and cry at the same time.
Two very different ideas, wormholes and quantum entanglement, might be fundamentally related. What would "ER = EPR" mean for our Universe?
The Chegg cheating scandal reveals a critical need to rethink the student experience in post-COVID education.
JWST just found its first transiting exoplanet, and it's 99% the size of Earth. But with no atmosphere seen, perhaps air is truly rare.
From the present day all the way to less than 400 million years after the Big Bang, we're seeing how the Universe grew up like never before.
When you measure not just light, but light’s polarization, you learn so much more. It’s been over 100 years since the first solution for a black hole was discovered in General […]
The scientists, not the fossil fuel industry, were right all along. Back in 1990, the world’s top climate scientists convened to put together a report on the state of Earth’s climate. […]
Americans lose an estimated 321 million work days every year due to anxiety and depression.
Brands manufacture meaning through consensus; people must strive to create their own.
No matter how your year went, Hubble’s views of the Universe never disappoint. Year after year, Hubble’s telescopic views are unparalleled. Saturn, its rings, and 5 of its moons are […]
This year marks 2,000 years since the birth of the Roman author of the first natural encyclopedia.
For the ancients, hospitality was an inviolable law enforced by gods and priests and anyone else with the power to make you pay dearly for mistreating a stranger.
Neptune holds records in our Solar System, but the Universe gets even faster. Here on Earth, extreme weather events can cause dramatic wind speed spikes. When hurricanes are at their most […]
We’ve already observed three cases where it’s happened. When you look at an object in space, it’s pretty easy to tell if it’s a star or a planet. Stars are […]
Sex, it turns out, isn’t as easy or simple as popular culture might lead us to believe.
Recasting the iconic Carrington Event as just one of many superstorms in Earth’s past, scientists reveal the potential for even more massive eruptions from the sun.
We can describe what we see happening, but we don’t understand why. Despite our vast cosmic knowledge, enormous unknowns remain. The quantum fluctuations inherent to space, stretched across the Universe […]
Hubble’s still going strong after 31+ years. James Webb will never make it that long. Every decision that’s made — in both astronomy and in life — comes with its own set of pros and […]
With sodium-sensitive eyes, we’d see it every new Moon. With no detectable gases, the Moon appears to be atmosphere-free. The Moon as seen from a view above the majority of Earth’s […]