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The spikes in their mouths would have helped them catch squid or fish.
Kahneman was a world-changing psychologist — even with his lesser known ideas on life satisfaction.
Rather than sending serial killer art to auctions, it should be sent to abnormal psychologists for research.
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 […]
We have a morbid curiosity about nautical disaster stories. The Irish “Wreck Viewer” offers a window into centuries of marine misfortune.
The nature of civilizational threats has changed in a mere decade.
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.
In one experiment, the Viking landers added water to Martian soil samples. That might have been a very bad idea.
Two aspects of memory – fast updating and long lasting – are typically considered incompatible, yet the insects combined them.
Meet the masterful con-men who impressed the great and the good despite the astonishing fiction of their very existence.
Icebergs aren’t just a threat to unsinkable ships. Their ability to cause underwater landslides poses a danger to coastal cities.
Being a jerk gets you rich, promoted, and laid (if you’re a man). But there is a downside.
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.
At least one of Earth’s creatures is able to survive the vacuum of space.
Even if you or I will never actually visit these distant worlds, we now know they exist. They should fill us with wonder.
There are two conceptions of free will: “straight” and “mixed.”
If you find yourself on one of these roads, it might be a while before you see another fellow traveler.
These hard-to-finish books are still worth the effort.
Anyone up for a crisp, blonde ale?
The modern attention economy hijacks our ability to focus, but an ancient technique offers a means to get it back.
Saturn’s Iapetus, discovered way back in 1671, has three bizarre features that science still can’t fully explain.
All life forms, anywhere in our Universe, are chemically connected yet completely unique.
Organic molecules can be produced by living or non-living systems. But the recent findings are very intriguing.
Ancient humans crossed the Bering Strait land bridge from Asia into North America. But some of them went back.
“Politics is weird. It’s the only business in the world in which you take a really, really important position, and you give it to someone with no qualifications.” —Tony Blair
Dante’s epic journey through hell and heaven reveal how the poet felt about his own country.
A vertical map might better represent a world dominated by China and determined by shipping routes across the iceless Arctic.
Scuba divers often appear to be swimming through a calm and muffled universe. This couldn’t be farther from the truth.