The case for why NASA should pivot to searching for current — not ancient — signs of life.
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Only nine weeks later, the Wright Brothers achieved manned flight. The pathologically cynical always will find a reason to complain.
But don’t buy your own brain zapping machine, yet.
Like Mars today, Venus used to be a sci-fi superstar. Recent discoveries could re-ignite our interest in Earth’s “evil twin.”
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Hear from Commander Guy Snodgrass, a former TOPGUN graduate and instructor, on how to develop high-performing teams at your organization.
Sun-like stars live for around 10 billion years, but our Universe is only 13.8 billion years old. So what’s the maximum lifetime for a star?
Millions of people have had a near-death experience, and it often leads them to believe in an afterlife. Does this count as good proof?
Frontier, the ORNL supercomputer, used machine learning to perform 9.95 quintillion calculations per second.
In Georgia, it’s becoming less common to pronounce words like “prize” as “prahz.”
Athletes often use creatine to boost performance and aid muscle recovery. Accumulating evidence suggests it could also help with depression.
The U.S. ranked 59th worldwide.
The outer planets’ clouds hide the weirdness within.
A quote from a 1995 book by astronomer Carl Sagan describes a world many find disturbingly similar to ours.
In work and life, the rules of success are being redefined.
Skilled hunters adapted to the changing landscape and left tantalizing clues to who they were.
An interview with economist Tyler Cowen on why American progress has seemed to stall and how we can get it back on track.
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Stone buildings in northern India reveal secrets of old structures that could save lives.
About three out of every four people arrested in the U.S. are men. That rate is similar across the world.
In the night sky for March of 2022, only stars and the Moon, not planets, will greet you. The real show, however, arrives just before dawn.
“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it.”
The lack of friendship is particularly a problem for men. But there are easy ways to make friends.
The Rubbee X requires almost no setup and is far cheaper than a brand new e-bike.
Historically, periods of mass flourishing are underpinned by technological revolutions. Currently, we are undergoing a technological revolution unlike anything the world has ever seen.
Concluding that Damar Hamlin’s cardiac arrest was caused by the COVID vaccine requires accepting highly improbable leaps of logic.
Today, our observable Universe extends for 46 billion light-years in all directions. But early on in our history, things were much smaller.
In the beginning, genes weren’t needed.
Over a third are worried that vaccines can cause “canine autism.”
In the ongoing battle against PTSD, a potential new weapon emerges: a nasal spray loaded with neuropeptide Y.
Researchers estimate there may be as many as ten million trillion trillion phages on Earth — that’s 10 with 30 zeros after it.