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Three scientists publish a paper proving that Mercury, not Venus, is the closest planet to Earth.
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How does Vladimir Putin see the world? To understand how he controls Russia and pushes his agenda overseas, look to the works of 20th-century fascist philosopher Ivan Ilyin.
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New research at Carnegie Mellon University suggests a game of musical chairs.
GenTech aren’t happy about how their data is being collected and used.
An autistic woman, Judy Singer, coined the term ‘neurodiversity’ in her 1988 thesis as a label for the unique contribution made to the world by people whose brains are wired […]
The Earth is warming, and humans aren’t doing nearly enough to combat it. Could partially blocking the sunlight be the solution? It’s 2020, and not only is the Earth warmer […]
Scientists discovered microbes that have lived on Earth for millions of years.
New research compares the roles and political clout of royal women in eight societies spanning five continents and more than 4,000 years.
In cities, people tend to think of parks as dangerous.
If you think about the way a gravitational wave detector works, you might encounter a paradox. Here’s the solution. One of the greatest scientific achievements in all of human history […]
“Sea of Shadows” is a documentary you can’t afford to miss.
Climate-driven changes in phytoplankton communities will intensify the blue and green regions of the world’s oceans.
Two space agencies plan missions to deflect an asteroid.
The country’s paperless system serves as a model to other nations.
General Relativity had to be right. Here’s how we knew. What happens to light when it passes near a large mass? Does it simply continue in a straight line, undeflected from […]
The controversy around the Torah codes gets a new life.
Like it or not, agreements made between hackers in Germany, Prague, and elsewhere could reconfigure the economy… and a frightening new world.
Interestingly, electrically stimulating the cingulum bundle also seems to reduce anxiety.
The world’s always been changing, but it feels like it’s never changed so quickly as it does now. What life skills will that render obsolete?
A long-ridiculed theory about humankind’s early leap of consciousness is revived.
A longstanding astronomical gap between neutron stars and black holes is finally coming to a close. Astronomy has taken us so far into the Universe, from beyond Earth to the planets, […]
A network of devices called MERMAIDs is taking seismographs where they’ve never been.
A robotic teddy bear could improve physical and emotional outcomes in pediatric patients.
“In so far as bodily movements build the brain, every movement a human makes matters.”
If we ruin the night sky too severely, ground-based astronomy could suffer tremendously. Here’s why space is no replacement. There is an existential threat to astronomy as we know it, […]
Despite the negative rhetoric, Europeans are getting more liberal about immigration.
Between Carl Sagan’s laughter, the brainwaves of somebody in love, and a live theremin concert, humanity has sent a lot of data out into the stars.