The peasant turned czarist advisor has come to be known and feared as the devil incarnate, but was he really as demonic as we have been led to believe?
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“I suddenly woke up one day and thought, you idiot, you are letting your life fade away, you have got to do something.”
Donate a kidney now, and your loved one will have priority status if they need one later.
Baruch Spinoza suggests how to lead a virtuous and blessed life.
The question of anti-Semitism, Nazism, and a particularly nasty sibling haunted Nietzsche’s legacy.
Objective reality exists, but what can you know about it that isn’t subjective. According to some neuroscientists, not much.
The highest-energy particles of all come from space, not human-made colliders. When it comes to the most energetic particle collisions of all, you might think that the Large Hadron Collider […]
In fact, 10,000 steps a day is just an arbitrary number from an old marketing campaign.
A new study upends a long-standing theory on how the brain plans motor actions in uncertain environments.
Is the time crystal really an otherworldly revolution, leveraging quantum computing that will change physics forever?
Reductionism is a successful way to explain the universe, but it cannot replace experience. This is part of the mystery of life.
Without these two elements, we’re doomed to fail. In this day and age, it’s virtually impossible to have sufficient expertise to figure out what the complete, comprehensive, scientifically validated truth surrounding […]
All of these conflicts have a long history. They may also have a long future.
What started as a viral case of public shaming has morphed into a dark story involving internet sleuths, a criminal network, and the suspicious death of a 62-year-old man in St. Louis.
Love him or hate, Karl Marx redefined geopolitics and shook up the world order.
An exclusive interview with physicist Lee Smolin reveals how abandoning Einstein’s dream may have been a terrible mistake.
The upcoming launch of the James Webb Space Telescope is the event of a lifetime.
From corrupt czars to bloodthirsty Bolsheviks, Russia has had no shortage of bad leaders. But just how evil were they really?
Research has shown the benefits of mindfulness, but the current mindfulness craze cannot deliver on its overhyped promises.
In the name of fighting horrific crimes, Apple threatens to open Pandora’s box.
Why are the rest masses of fundamental particles related like this? When it comes to the nature of matter in the Universe, the Standard Model describes the known elementary particles perfectly […]
A new study looks at what happens when you get infected with two viruses at the same time.
Mathematically, it is a monster, but we can understand it in plain English.
From the Notre Dame to Buddhist statues, dozens of irreplaceable artifacts are destroyed every year by both man and nature.
Socrates is considered the “Father of Western Philosophy,” but perhaps that honorific should go to Plato.
Life finds a way — particularly if it has a moon.
More energy means more potential for discovery, but we’re topped out. If your goal is to discover something completely novel, you have to look in a way that no one else […]
Signals from across the universe point toward a fascinating possibility.
A female boar’s intelligence, resolve, and empathy stun researchers.