Humans are good visual thinkers, too, but we tend to privilege verbal thinking.
It's nearly 20,000 miles long.
Far from practicing witchcraft, the experimentation of medieval alchemists helped bring about the Scientific Revolution.
Left–Right, Back–Forth, Up–Down. What’s the fourth dimension?
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Along with gravitational lensing and ALMA's incredible long-wavelength spectroscopy, JWST is reshaping our view of the early Universe.
One of Jetoptera's VTOLs is expected to reach speeds of around 614 mph, about as fast as a commercial jet airliner.
New blood types are regularly discovered by an unusual absence or an unusual presence — both of which can result in tragedy.
Disease kills off 40% of farmed catfish. This gene protects them.
Researchers watched for signs of withdrawal — but didn't find any.
Compared to people who took a placebo, the brains of those who took caffeine pills had a temporarily smaller gray matter volume.
"It is more human to laugh at life than to lament it."
Entrenched business wisdom says that community-led economic systems are pure fantasy. Douglas Rushkoff disagrees.
How the Big Bang gave us time, explained by theoretical physicist.
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The right questions are those sparked from the joy of discovery.
When you bring two fingers together, you can feel them "touch" each other. But are your atoms really touching, and if so, how?
There might be a hard limit to our knowledge of the Universe.
Personal finance advice is often over-simplified and fails to consider economic research or people’s unique circumstances.
Some Europeans really don't want to use the internet.
Evil is easy to identify and fight against; not so with stupidity.
Size matters, but it's not the only thing.
It's simpler, more compact, and reusable from year-to-year in a way that no other calendar is. Here's both how it works and how to use it.
To Einstein, nature had to be rational. But quantum physics showed us that there was not always a way to make it so.
Warm relationships protect your mind and body from the slings and arrows of life.
Close to 70% of drugs advertised on TV offer little to no benefit over other cheaper drugs.
Rogue Putin is the biggest risk of 2023. Here are the other nine, explained by global political expert Ian Bremmer.
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Sniffing out a deal.
In Einstein's relativity and the Standard Model, we only have three spatial dimensions. But there could be more, and many think there are.
One study suggested that the "Methuselah Star" is older than the Universe itself.
Created in the 1880s, "Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan," which depicts a father murdering his son, divides Russians to this day.
Some objects were softer than others.