Every astrobiologist wants to find an alien. But the public should be skeptical when the “aliens” look like tiny humans.
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In an animal study, it blocked the drug from crossing into the brain.
Barnard’s star, the closest singlet star system to ours, has long been a target for planet-hunters. We’ve finally confirmed it: they exist!
Meet the masterful con-men who impressed the great and the good despite the astonishing fiction of their very existence.
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The philosophy of sex is going through a recalibration period.
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?
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Was the terror of Biscayne Bay a man who escaped slavery, an African chieftain, or a marketing ploy that went viral?
In Kannauj, perfumers have been making monsoon-infused mitti attar for centuries.
We are traveling in a realm that once exclusively belonged to the gods. Space travel will force humanity to rethink everything.
Lost in a building or underwater? A new muon-based navigation system could be your guide.
The Human Chronome Project finds that the average human sleeps for 9 hours but only works for 2.6 hours.
Frontier, the ORNL supercomputer, used machine learning to perform 9.95 quintillion calculations per second.
Billy was a local celebrity in the early 1900s. And he might have been a murderer.
To this day, one cult believes that Lemuria was real, and that its people left us the sacred wisdom to revive their advanced civilization.
Plato’s cave metaphor illustrates the cognitive trap of ignorance, where we may be unaware of the limitations of our understanding.
Caption:“At this time in Mars’ history, we think CO2 is everywhere, in every nook and cranny, and water percolating through the rocks is full of CO2 too,” Joshua Murray says.
Sunita Sah hopes that by redefining defiance, we can build societies that allow people to live more authentic lives.
Don’t take the prodigy pathway. Become a broad thinker instead.
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