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Kahneman was a world-changing psychologist — even with his lesser known ideas on life satisfaction.
It could one day fuel nuclear fusion reactors.
Time is relative, not absolute, as gravity and motion both cause time to dilate. Your head and feet, therefore, don’t age at the same rate.
Nagomi helps us find balance in discord by unifying the elements of life while staying true to ourselves.
Rather than sending serial killer art to auctions, it should be sent to abnormal psychologists for research.
Fossilized footprints found at an excavation site in southwest New Mexico prove humans colonized the continent much earlier than previously thought.
Synthetic milk is not a sci-fi fantasy; it already exists.
The spikes in their mouths would have helped them catch squid or fish.
Nearly 200 orbital launches are scheduled for 2022.
The nature of civilizational threats has changed in a mere decade.
In one experiment, the Viking landers added water to Martian soil samples. That might have been a very bad idea.
We have a morbid curiosity about nautical disaster stories. The Irish “Wreck Viewer” offers a window into centuries of marine misfortune.
Meet the masterful con-men who impressed the great and the good despite the astonishing fiction of their very existence.
The largest moon in our Solar System, often overlooked, is a water-rich world. Does that mean life? Here on Earth, life took hold very early on in our planet’s history, and […]
Two aspects of memory – fast updating and long lasting – are typically considered incompatible, yet the insects combined them.
Being a jerk gets you rich, promoted, and laid (if you’re a man). But there is a downside.
At least one of Earth’s creatures is able to survive the vacuum of space.
1859’s Carrington event gave us a preview of how catastrophic the Sun could be for humanity. But it could get even worse than we imagined.
Icebergs aren’t just a threat to unsinkable ships. Their ability to cause underwater landslides poses a danger to coastal cities.
These hard-to-finish books are still worth the effort.
If you find yourself on one of these roads, it might be a while before you see another fellow traveler.
The modern attention economy hijacks our ability to focus, but an ancient technique offers a means to get it back.
There are two conceptions of free will: “straight” and “mixed.”
Even if you or I will never actually visit these distant worlds, we now know they exist. They should fill us with wonder.
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Dante’s epic journey through hell and heaven reveal how the poet felt about his own country.
Slowing growth and limiting development isn’t living in harmony with nature—it is surrendering in a battle.