Bill Bryson’s new book, “The Body: A Guide For Occupants,” provides important (and funny) lessons in anatomy, neuroscience, physiology, biology, and more.
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The Leonid meteor shower peaks today. Its parent comet taught us where meteor showers come from. Every year, as Earth regularly orbits the Sun, meteor showers repeatedly recur. While August’s Perseids […]
Doctors put a human into suspended animation for the first time ever.
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Millennial income did not recover from the Great Recession like older generations’, a disparity that can have dire consequences for future generations.
Having helped transform how creative work is financed, Yancey Strickler has moved on from Kickstarter, the company he co-founded toward a kind of values reset that moves us away from a narrow, unsustainable, inhumane obsession with profit at all costs.
We negotiate throughout our lives in a lot more ways than we realize. Learning how to reach an agreement is a valuable skill to have, and one great way to […]
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While legalization has benefits, a new study suggests it may have one big drawback.
The bill would effectively legalize marijuana at the federal level, while allowing states to draft their own laws.
Living 150 years sounds great… till you consider the effects on population.
Even before MMA was a combat sport, it was a unique type of astronomy. Today, it’s opening up the Universe as never before. On February 24, 1987, a spectacular signal was […]
A new paper suggests that the mysterious X17 subatomic particle is indicative of a fifth force of nature.
“You will always be looking over your shoulder waiting for somebody to call you out and say, ‘You’re a fraud, you’re an idiot.’ … I still start things and basically […]
The object, originally dubbed “Ultima Thule,” was renamed to “Arrokoth” due to the connection between the word “Thule” and the Nazis.
A recent computer analysis found that millions of possible chemical compounds could be used to store genetic information. This begs the question — why DNA?
A mysterious startup reveals a groundbreaking solar energy achievement.
Matter can indeed sprout out of nothingness, causing the universe to expand.
Helium and carbon are made copiously in the interiors of stars. But the in-between elements? They’re rarities everywhere. If you were to take every element in the periodic table and […]
Entomologist William Romoser of Ohio University says NASA images depict insect- and reptile-like creatures on Mars.
Can collective protest still change the world?
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The campaign promise could only become law if the Labour Party wins the general election in December.
Switching over to a vegan-based diet can drastically cut CO2 emissions. But will Americans actually change their diet?
The social media company’s recent transparency report claimed that it had taken down a staggering number of fake accounts — but it’s unlikely they’re catching them all.
An Italian firm has put forward an idea for a green city that would be completely self-sustaining, modern, and green.
For decades, one of the Big Bang’s greatest predictions was shrouded in doubt. The answer was always there on Channel 3. When it comes to the question of how our Universe […]
A federal court ruled that the state of Kentucky was wrong to deny a man’s request for a personalized license plate reading “IM GOD.” Here’s why that’s a win against atheist discrimination.