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It is easy to underestimate how much the world can change within a lifetime.

The first human that isn’t an Earthling could be in our lifetime.

It’s estimated that one-in-three women and one-in-five men have an episode of major depression by the age of 65.

Sun-like stars live for around 10 billion years, but our Universe is only 13.8 billion years old. So what's the maximum lifetime for a star?

In all the Universe, only a few particles are eternally stable. The photon, the quantum of light, has an infinite lifetime. Or does it?

If we waited long enough, would even protons themselves decay? The far future stability of the Universe depends on it.

In the shadow of the Shard, the mosaics help paint a picture of Roman London.

A basement renovation project led to the archaeological discovery of a lifetime: the Derinkuyu Underground City, which housed 20,000 people.

It was supposed to have a 5.5-10 year lifetime, and take 6 months to calibrate. It's performing better than anyone anticipated.

The upcoming launch of the James Webb Space Telescope is the event of a lifetime.

Up until 2002, we thought that the heaviest stable element was bismuth: #83 on the periodic table. That's absolutely no longer the case.

We don’t need one Elon Musk. We need 8 billion empathic futurists.

The aging brain is networked differently.

The history of music from bone flutes to Beyoncé.

Steel tires may be better for the planet and could replace rubber.

From unexplained tracks in a balloon-borne experiment to cosmic rays on Earth, the unstable muon was particle physics' biggest surprise.

2023's Nobel Prize was awarded for studying physics on tiny, attosecond-level timescales. Too bad that particle physics happens even faster.

Every opportunity seized is another lost — but not choosing is the worst choice of all.

All stars, eventually, run out of fuel and die. Given all the stars we can see and the vast distance to them, are any of them already dead?

Before we discovered gravitational waves, multi-messenger astronomy got its start with light and particles arriving from the same event.

How much can something change and still be the same thing?

The number of people with whom we interact is highest around 40, but then things change substantially after that.

Futurist Ari Wallach asks, "how do we want to be remembered?"

Ever since the Big Bang, cataclysmic events have released enormous amounts of energy. Here's the greatest one ever witnessed.

"Our risk-benefit analysis showed that benefits exceeded procedural risks... by up to 200 to 1."

We are still new at this.

It walked enough miles to nearly circle the Earth twice.

Personal finance advice is often over-simplified and fails to consider economic research or people’s unique circumstances.

It will be able to produce 22 million pounds of cultivated meat annually.

Instead of walking a mile in someone’s shoes, try reading a chapter in their book.