The length of a day oscillates slightly every six years. This was a surprising discovery made last decade. We might now know why.
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These composers channeled the horror of the Holocaust and Hiroshima while honoring those who lived through it.
The threats Mars astronauts face — and how NASA is working to solve them.
A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?
A volley of new insights reignites the debate over whether our choices are ever truly our own.
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Not all stress is created equal.
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Without Étienne-Joseph-Théophile Thoré, the genius of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer would have been lost to time.
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Many people perceive the struggle to understand our Universe as a battle between science and God. But this is a false dichotomy.
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Uncertainty is inherent to our Universe.
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Sometimes breaking a rule is the ethical thing to do.
Impossible standards and poor self-understanding are making us miserable.
“Block. It puts some writers down for months. It puts some writers down for life.”
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Cognitive psychologist and poet Keith Holyoak explores whether artificial intelligence could ever achieve poetic authenticity.
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If nature were perfectly deterministic, atoms would almost instantly all collapse. Here’s how Heisenberg uncertainty saves the atom.
How drugs, demons, and the search for immortality gave us words we use everyday.
Psychologists often view relationship power imbalances through three unique dynamics.
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