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Napoleon Bonaparte was a man of many faces. European historian Michael Broers explains which are featured on the silver screen and why.
The heart’s rhythms may play a larger role in shaping psychedelic experiences than previously thought.
Slack’s recent radical upskilling booster week highlighted the urgent need for new approaches to L&D: here are some of the most groundbreaking.
The cosmic scales governing the Universe are almost unbelievably large. What if we shrunk the Sun down to be just a grain of sand?
The U.S. ranked 59th worldwide.
Actor and science communicator Alan Alda shares his three rules of three for effective and empathic communication.
Intentions tend to get mangled by overreach in every complex organization — so dial up the charisma and the clarity.
Figuring out the answer involved a prism, a pail of water, and a 50 year effort by the most famous father-son astronomer duo ever.
Fantasy, meet statistics: The census comes to Middle-earth!
Here’s why the answer may forever elude scientists.
Well-rounded business teams can be built by distilling key insights from sporting data. Bottom line: don’t overstock on superstars.
With the invention of the leap year, the Julian calendar was used worldwide for over 1500 years. Over time, it led only to catastrophe.
Sometimes called “the new gold,” sand is the second most exploited natural resource in the world after fresh water.
Like many of us, the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius hated waking up early, but his stoic philosophy always helped him get out of bed.
Engagement with generative AI is a business essential — but all companies should be vigilant.
Today, the star-formation rate across the Universe is a mere trickle: just 3% of what it was at its peak. Here’s what it was like back then.
Earth wasn’t created until more than 9 billion years after the Big Bang. In some lucky places, life could have arisen almost right away.
Millions of people have had a near-death experience, and it often leads them to believe in an afterlife. Does this count as good proof?
The first-of-its-kind map, which goes all the way down to the level of a single cell, could help prevent common birth defects.
As early as we’ve been able to identify them, the youngest galaxies seem to have large supermassive black holes. Here’s how they were made.
The ominous cloud of acid rain hasn’t vanished but rather drifted toward the developing world.
A basement renovation project led to the archaeological discovery of a lifetime: the Derinkuyu Underground City, which housed 20,000 people.
For 550 million years, neutral atoms blocked the light made in stars from traveling freely through the Universe. Here’s how it then changed.
As wind power grows around the world, so does the threat the turbines pose to wildlife. From simple fixes to high-tech solutions, new approaches can help.
Wolfgang Pauli was a brilliant, well-liked physicist and a scathing critic of balderdash.
We each have the same 24 hours in the day. How will you spend yours?
Even after the first stars form, those overdense regions gravitationally attract matter and also merge. Here’s how they grow into galaxies.
Teller and Sagan debated fiercely over nuclear proliferation. But was the conflict as personal as it was intellectual for Teller?