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Is true equality achievable — or even desirable? Go on a journey through the strange and unsettling “Land of Justice.”
A new book envisions an encounter of minds between the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, the physicist Werner Heisenberg, and the philosopher Immanuel Kant.
There’s really only one mistake you can make: continue doing the same thing you already know is hurting you and expect a different result.
American students are being compelled to specialize earlier and earlier. Here’s what it takes to build a successful physics foundation.
Art isn’t a side note in human history; it’s the main text.
Medical psychologist Catherine Monk explains how prenatal mental care benefits both mothers and babies.
Being a good leader requires emotional capital, which is one reason why many bosses are so bad at it.
A clock, designed and built in Europe, ran hopelessly at the wrong rate when brought to America. The physics of gravity explains why.
In the 1960s, politicians and bureaucrats were formulating the Central Arizona Project. Citizens fought back.
The polymath used science to elevate his art.
Millennials — who were raised to expect unlimited success but found only disappointment — can be drawn to manifestation.
Positron emission tomography (PET) scans use positrons — the antimatter equivalent of an electron — to locate cancer in the body.
Can quantum computers do things that standard, classical computers can’t? No. But if they can calculate faster, that’s quantum supremacy.
Sixty years later, will anybody have heard of COVID?
Six authors, six monumental legacies, and a unique thread connecting them: a solitary novel that shines brightly.
Wherever automation rises, religiosity falls.
Do you really need a monstrous upbringing to make monsters?
When the average person has a “theory,” they’re just guessing. But for a scientist, a theory is the pinnacle of what we can achieve.
Whether you’re a leader looking to ramp up team output or just trying to improve your skill set, hard work alone is not enough.
Be more like Goldilocks.
Nero’s reputation as one of the most malevolent emperors in Roman history might be partly slander.
The “Ring Nebula,” known for almost 250 years, is so much more than a Ring. With JWST’s capabilities, we’re seeing more than ever before.
By looking down, scientists are looking back in time.
Life in the supremely vast cosmos is incredibly rare. We need a new vision for our living planet and for ourselves.
“They decreased their drinking to the point that it was so low we didn’t record a blood-alcohol level.”
Six hundred years in the history of trousers.
If you see life as only a source of suffering and misery, why bring anyone else into that? This belief, called anti-natalism, is on the rise.
AI is helping us replace petrochemicals with natural enzymes.