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Explore McLuhan’s theory on print culture and its influential hold over civilization.
Deceased donations could greatly improve fertility treatments for women with uterine problems.
A study out of Finland shows us that sex is sex and robots are robots, and the overlap is confusing.
Amazon could be the next big tech firm to find itself in the eye of a data privacy storm.
There might be hope for our oceans, thanks to one clumsy moment in a coral tank.
The first planets were only gas. The second included rocky ones, but life wasn’t possible. Here’s how we finally got there. Here in the Universe today, potentially habitable planets are practically […]
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas shares the books that shaped his life.
Todd Yellin, VP of Product Innovation at Netflix, doesn’t suggest that you should try to fail as much as you can. But he does say failures are an inevitable part […]
Drug use and arrests are rising overall, but those changes vary depending on the state.
The controversial scientist He Jiankui is currently missing after causing major controversy in late November.
A new study warns of millions of “lost Einsteins.”
Mothers who tested positive for chemicals found in common cosmetic products were more likely to have girls who hit puberty early.
It’s hard to get off of the couch after a few eggnogs, let alone destroy public property.
All the planets, asteroids, and Kuiper belt objects out there all point to the same conclusion: it’s giant impacts or no moons at all. Out of all the rocky planets […]
You can incorporate these science-backed activities into your evening routine tonight.
It was “one of the most complex and intricate endeavors” SpaceX has ever undertaken.
A new study re-assesses multitasking.
Attenborough told the audience at COP24 that climate change is “our greatest threat in thousands of years.”
Who would have thought that endlessly comparing your life to others would make you feel bad?
Back with another one of those block(chain)-rockin’ reads.
Ketamine is showing promise in alleviating suicidal thoughts.
The first list of antidepressant food scores restructures the “standard” American diet.
Galaxies are found uniformly everywhere in the Universe, except in the Milky Way’s plane. Here’s why. From the time of their very first discovery, the Universe’s grand spirals have puzzled astronomers. […]
The Dalai Lama is important, so important that he might decide not to come back after his next death.
What do the “seduction movement,” the Virginia Tech shooter, and the Asian-American experience have in common? Wesley Yang thinks and writes with devastating clarity about loneliness, invisibility, and the incoherence of American life.
We can go to deeper and deeper levels, finding more fundamental quantities as we do. But is there a truly fundamental quantity? What is the Universe, at a fundamental level, […]
Anchorage was rocked by back-to-back earthquakes on Friday morning, prompting a tsunami warning.
There are many ways to posit the fundamental nature of reality.
It’s likely one of the biggest data breaches in corporate history.