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People with higher immune resilience live longer, resist diseases, and are more likely to survive diseases when they do develop.

Sight helps you see a room, but interoception lets you sense it from inside your own body.

These initially sympathetic characters take readers down a dark path.

Alan Turing and Christopher Strachey created a ground-breaking computer program that allowed them to express affection vicariously when so doing publicly, as gay men, was criminal.

We don’t know when or how music was originally invented, but we can now track its evolution across space and time thanks to the Global Jukebox.

To understand Vincent van Gogh, we must first debunk the myth of the tortured artist. Van Gogh believed his illness inhibited his creativity.

In “Moral Ambition,” Dutch historian Rutger Bregman argues that all would benefit from a collective redefinition of success.

When it comes to behavior, genetics may play a larger role than you think.

Today, the deepest depths of intergalactic space aren’t at absolute zero, but at a chill 2.73 K. How does that temperature change over time?

The site will be the first working example of a geological disposal facility.

It started with a 22-year-old woman, named in papers only as Mrs McK.

The giant impact theory suggests our Moon was formed from proto-Earth getting a Mars-sized strike. An exoplanet system shows it’s plausible.

Three years after the pandemic began, we still don’t know the origin of COVID. A strange lack of curiosity has stifled the debate.

The majority of people in every country support action on climate, but the public consistently underestimates this share.

Cancer cells hoard iron in unusually high quantities. Scientists have discovered how to leverage this to create safer cancer drugs.

The laws of physics aren’t changing. But the Earth’s conditions are different than what they used to be, and so are hurricanes as a result.

Wander into the deep recesses of the mind and never return the same with these existentialist books.

Some astrobiologists believe life is rare, while others believe it is common in the Universe. How can we find out which view is correct?

From “Thompson’s violinist” to the “Experience Machine,” these thought experiments will throw your mind for a loop.

When Mongol traders came knocking, Sultan Muhammad II shaved off their beards. Three years later, his whole empire was annihilated.

Scientists are still figuring out why tirzepatide causes weight loss. One theory is that they “accidentally” created a new hormone.

Ancient helium-3 from the dawn of time leaks from the Earth, offering clues to our planet’s formation. A key question is where it leaks from.

Someday, scientists could use stem cells to guide the development of synthetic organs for patients awaiting transplants.

Einstein’s most famous equation is E = mc², which describes the rest mass energy inherent to particles. But motion matters for energy, too.

Neuroscience is beginning to provide clues about the emergence of human consciousness.

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

Using data collected from ancient civilizations across the world, researchers identified the most significant factors in human development. War came out on top. 

The right questions are those sparked from the joy of discovery.

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

How drugs, demons, and the search for immortality gave us words we use everyday.