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Some authors never saw their books score widespread acclaim—or even get published at all.

Not every classic enjoyed rave reviews from the start.

Books that were rarely taught in 1963, when baby boomers were students, became classics when those same boomers were teachers and parents.

Democratic freedom, rapturous religion, and newspapers created a hotbed for social experimentation in 19th-century America.

"The Man in the High Castle" may be the most beloved alternate history book, but it is not the most historically accurate.

Anyone with a killer idea for a podcast can learn valuable tactics for turning that idea into a success with the training in the How to Start a Podcast Bundle.

Alzheimer's has proved difficult to treat. But solving the mystery of this ultra-rare frontotemporal dementia may unlock new understanding.

You want your baby's name to be unique, but so does everyone else.

The Industrial Revolution changed music forever, thanks to a combination of technological advances and clever entrepreneurs.

This collection of learning and development quotes serves as a reminder of the meaning and purpose behind this important work.

Esoteric evidence points to a ritual performed by Queen Elizabeth's court magician John Dee.

Pandemic rumors and information overload make separating fact from fancy difficult, putting people's health and lives at risk.

An exclusive interview with physicist Lee Smolin reveals how abandoning Einstein's dream may have been a terrible mistake.

Far from being a “dead” pursuit that focuses on old ideas, modern philosophy proposes and debates important, new concepts. All of us can learn from it.

In each of our minds, we draw a demarcation line between beliefs that are reasonable and those that are nonsense. Where do you draw your line?

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Scientists from John Hopkins find a material for quantum computing.

The idea that celestial objects exist within utterly immense cosmic structures is becoming inescapable.

The object, originally dubbed "Ultima Thule," was renamed to "Arrokoth" due to the connection between the word "Thule" and the Nazis.

On May 4, 1970, the National Guard shot and killed four students during an anti-war protest. The massacre went on to change American culture forever.

Only 3% of physics graduates and 2% of astronomy graduates are Black. That’s got to change. In the late 1990s, about 5% of the approximately 4000 bachelor’s degrees in physics per […]

It’s fundamentally different from space. Here’s how. Here’s a question that most of us have been asked at some point in our lives, “what’s the shortest distance between two points?” By […]

A new NASA report shakes up lunar geology.

The true course of progress is not only charted by great men and women, but also by ordinary people having conversations.

Flattening the curve on panic and disinformation.

Our planet is rare, precious, and fragile. It’s up to all of us to be its steward. With the advent of rocketry and spaceflight, our cosmic perspective changed forever. The very […]

Being an American president is a powerful but dangerous job, a fact shown by many assassination attempts.

Four out of every five American adults and children are not moving enough.

Simply getting into grad school isn’t enough. The answers to these three questions can make all the difference. It’s time. You’ve done all your research into schools, completed your undergraduate […]

America isn't immune to attempts to remove books from libraries and schools, here are ten frequent targets and why you ought to go check them out.