In a world without clocks, people used common activities in place of time units. How long it took you to go to the toilet mattered.
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Philosophy can focus on some dull topics. Luckily, some thinkers have spent lots of time on the philosophy of sex
Only nine weeks later, the Wright Brothers achieved manned flight. The pathologically cynical always will find a reason to complain.
They call it “Judo T-cell therapy,” and it’s 100 times more potent than regular CAR-T cells.
When was the last time you spent some quality time with yourself?
For college students, it's the early afternoon.
From hunter-gatherers to the American Dream: This is how humanity’s definition of “work” has developed over time.
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Journaling helped Marcus Aurelius cultivate the emotional intelligence necessary to steer Rome through turbulent times.
If you said "with the Big Bang," congratulations: that was our best answer as of ~1979. Here's what we've learned in all the time since.
Einstein's relativity overthrew the notion of absolute space and time, replacing them with a spacetime fabric. But is spacetime truly real?
You know that ghostly feeling that someone is nearby even though nobody is? It could be a trick of neural timing.
This list of leadership training topics is designed to help businesses navigate the times and prepare for the future.
Volcanologists warn that magma-filled vents evolve over time, leading to an underestimation of the number that might erupt — especially those capable of the biggest explosions
1.9 billion years ago, a star's explosive death created a black hole. Its light just arrived at Earth. But did it set a cosmic record?
Get the most out of your coffee.
Times of crisis tend to produce “hard” leaders, but — driven by Generations Y and Z — a softer leadership style has taken root globally.
"All moments past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist."
Valles Marineris is the Solar System's grandest canyon, many times longer, wider, and deeper than the Grand Canyon. What scarred Mars so?
Two populations that are geographically separated today once mated a very long time ago.
“Chicago May” was a classic swindler who conned her way around the world in the early twentieth century. She was also a sign of hard times.
We live in a four-dimensional Universe, where matter and energy curve the fabric of spacetime. But time sure is different from space!
You are trapped in time. You never live in the world as it is but only as you experience it as it was.
Generations ago, cosmologists asserted that the Universe might not just be the same in all directions, but at all times. But is that true?
The robot can drive heavy steal beams into the ground at a rate of 1 per 73 seconds, which will help expedite solar farm construction.
Generative AI — driven by large language models — has the potential to destroy or supercharge most businesses. Now is the time to pivot.
Humanity can avoid catastrophe — if we look beyond our blinkered present.
Because of dark energy, distant objects speed away from us faster and faster as time goes on. How long before every galaxy is out of reach?
Leaving Hubble in the dust, JWST has officially seen a galaxy from just 320 million years after the Big Bang: at just 2.3% its current age.
Despite billions of years of life on Earth, humans first arose only ~300,000 years ago. It took all that time to make our arrival possible.
The concept is so complex that scientists still argue whether it exists or if it is an illusion.