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These findings will revolutionize power production, lighting, semiconductors, and informational displays.
As this typewritten map shows, constraints can be freeing.
Everything we know can be traced back to the Big Bang, and before that, cosmic inflation. But what if we look to the future? Looking out at the Universe today, it’s […]
Crowdsourcing as an idea isn’t anything new, says historian and sex researcher Alice Dreger. She tells us about the history of public gathering of information from the medieval era to today.
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A former employee of Cambridge Analytica has revealed new information on the harvesting of Facebook users’ data prior to the 2016 presidential election.
“Expropriation without compensation” is meant to address the nation’s stark inequalities in wealth and land ownership.
The I Ching serves as a foundation for many Eastern philosophies and Western mathematics.
The Union of Concerned Scientists recently surveyed more than 63,000 scientists from 16 federal agencies, revealing a range of attitudes toward the current administration.
People’s views can change. What do we do with that?
Sobering accounts from one of the most pivotal battles in world history.
The Canadian professor has an extensive collection posted on his site.
Here’s the link to watch it live.
A new study on global alcohol consumption, said to be the largest and most detailed of its kind, says the “safest level of drinking is none.”
New principled approach helps autonomous underwater vehicles explore the ocean in an intelligent, energy-efficient manner.
When Adele sings “It felt like a movie…”, there’s a scientific reason that it did. Your brain is technically unconscious about 240 times a minute.
Scientists reversed the ageing of human cells, which could provide the basis for future anti-degeneration drugs.
The distance between the American dream and reality is expressed best through literature.
The best books, calendar, accessories and more are all just one click away. Every year, there are no shortage of wonderful, exciting, informative gifts you could get for those who matter […]
A new generation is waiting for the whimsy and wit of Dr. Seuss.
The arts can help schools tackle the current mental health crisis among teenagers.
What, exactly, do they do with your DNA?
The year was fraught to say the least. Riots in the streets, engagement abroad in a long-fought war, and an encroaching sense that the fabric that knits us together is […]
When it comes to the workplace, more diversity means more money.
And does it require the idea of ‘negative gravity’ in order to work? The biggest question that we’re even capable of asking, with our present knowledge and understanding of the Universe, […]
An innocuous sounding company, Strategic Communications Laboratories, was banned by Facebook. But the data the company mined was used by Trump’s campaign to whip the electorate into political animosity.
The hundreds of people that show up for flat Earth conventions are not the problem. What this type of thinking leads to is.
A recently solved murder case from the Netherlands illuminates some of the promises and ethical questions raised by the police practice of using genealogy databases to identify criminal suspects.
A buzzworthy study looks at the strange actions of bees.
If you want to know what makes a Canadian lynx a Canadian lynx a team of DNA sequencers has figured that out.