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

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

Finding out we’re not alone in the Universe would fundamentally change everything. Here’s how we could do it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

∆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.

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

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, […]

The divers spend their waking hours either under hundreds of feet of water on the ocean floor or squeezed into an area the size of a restaurant booth.

By taking Satan out of the religious context, storytellers explored the nature of sin in new ways.

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

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.

One particular revolution was so important, that at least one historian thinks the 20th century officially began in 1914 and ended in 1991.