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If Rome was not built in a day, why do you think you can be?
Technology goes in directions we can never predict — so we must be prepared to limit the spread of unintended consequences.
We are traveling in a realm that once exclusively belonged to the gods. Space travel will force humanity to rethink everything.
Smarter building materials can control indoor temperatures without external power.
Almost all royal lines try to legitimize their rule with legendary origin stories. Here are five of the strangest examples.
Day trading has the potential to yield incredible profits, but without a time machine, you’re unlikely to achieve them.
Experiences that put you in a state of flow are shown to override PTSD and heartbreak.
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If the past is any guide, things are going to take off quickly.
Meet the masterful con-men who impressed the great and the good despite the astonishing fiction of their very existence.
The question of why the Universe is the way it is is an ancient one, and none of the answers we have come up with are satisfying.
Every astrobiologist wants to find an alien. But the public should be skeptical when the “aliens” look like tiny humans.
Billy was a local celebrity in the early 1900s. And he might have been a murderer.
Mindfulness, detachment, selecting off-time activities with care: Here are evidence-based strategies to achieve healthy work-life balance.
In “Dear Oliver,” neuroscientist Susan Barry describes how her 10-year correspondence with Oliver Sacks unleashed her inner author.
Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein are locked in an eternal battle over the nature of gravity. Whose side are you on?
Every Christmas could be the last Christmas.
The philosophy of sex is going through a recalibration period.
Well-preserved ancient plants and other finds at the Clarkia fossil beds hint at what kind of evidence any Martian life may have left behind.
Lost in a building or underwater? A new muon-based navigation system could be your guide.
The great philosopher spent the final portion of his painful life in a vegetative state. Did illness get him there, or was it his own philosophy?
In Kannauj, perfumers have been making monsoon-infused mitti attar for centuries.
It’s not just fun: DNA origami has the potential to revolutionize engineering at the nanoscopic scale.
Was the terror of Biscayne Bay a man who escaped slavery, an African chieftain, or a marketing ploy that went viral?
To this day, one cult believes that Lemuria was real, and that its people left us the sacred wisdom to revive their advanced civilization.
As creatures and machines meld together in increasingly advanced forms, ethicists are starting to take note.
“Less is better” is not a catchy marketing slogan, but one doctor who didn’t shower for five years thinks there’s a lot of truth to it.
Irene is on a bus with her young kids when two men come on, cussing like sailors. Should Irene step in and say something?
From the explosions themselves to their unique and vibrant colors, the fireworks displays we adore require quantum physics.
Frontier, the ORNL supercomputer, used machine learning to perform 9.95 quintillion calculations per second.