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More than 300 years ago, a Spanish ship laden with unspeakable treasure sank after a battle. Because of greed, the treasure remains on the sea floor.

What you can learn about media by parodying it from the print era into the digital age.

Bloodcurdling war cries, shrieking elephants, and whistling arrows all made soldiers flee in terror.

The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter recently captured images that could help scientists better under the mysterious physics of our Sun.

We should all pause to appreciate the awe-inspiring beauty of the Universe.

Researchers find a way to distort laser light to survive a trip through disordered obstacles.

We cannot deduce laws about a higher level of complexity by starting with a lower level of complexity. Here, reductionism meets a brick wall.

While many imagine terrifying futures run by AI, Rohit Krishnan is quietly identifying real problems and solutions.

Achieving values and pursuing growth is the real secret to a fulfilled life.

Scientists find routes using arches of chaos that can lead to much faster space travel.

Before there were planets, stars, and galaxies, before even neutral atoms or stable protons, there was the Big Bang. How did we prove it?

Earth is not a benign mother. We have begun to witness what happens when it unleashes its fury.

Wealth concentration among elites was common in ancient nations, but the scale on which it took place in Egypt’s 18th Dynasty was unprecedented.

Compassionate leadership is what differentiates good from great leaders during crisis.

The answer to this question depends on how you define “freedom.”

No matter how accurately you place two Plinko chips, you cannot count on the same outcome twice. Of all the pricing games on the iconic television show The Price Is Right, […]

Just don’t expect the apocalypse to look like it does in the movies.

Billions of years ago, the ever-increasing entropy must’ve been much lower: the past hypothesis. Here’s how cosmic inflation solves it.

You may only have a few minutes to prepare.

The death of God didn’t strike Nietzsche as an entirely good thing. Without a God, the basic belief system of Western Europe was in jeopardy.

After the German election, will the nation continue to “muddle through” successfully enough to lead Europe?

We’re used to scientists telling us about the math and physics behind astronomical events. But what does studying space make us feel?

Why I was prepared to hate The Structure of Scientific Revolutions but ended up loving it.

The Swedish Academy honored the writer for his uncompromising inquiry into the lasting consequences of Africa’s colonization.

According to literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin, Dostoevsky’s talents were on par with those of William Shakespeare.

∆G = ∆H – T∆S is one of the most abstract formulas in science, but it is also one of the most important. Without it, life cannot exist.

Searching for dark matter, the XENON collaboration found absolutely nothing out of the ordinary. Here’s why that’s an extraordinary feat.

Dreams are weird. According to a new theory, that’s what makes them useful.

Some wild animals thrive near humans, but only up to a point.

Searching for happiness in the midst of personal or societal crises are nothing new.