There have been some 6,000 Great Lakes shipwrecks, which have claimed an estimated 30,000 lives. These maps show some of them.
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Luck doesn’t fall from the sky. It’s about how you position yourself for life’s challenges.
To Vladimir Putin, a young KGB colonel at the time, the decision was a colossal mistake.
Scientists have known blobs existed for a long time, but how they have behaved over Earth’s history has been an open question.
As the skills gap grows, learning and development can help ensure the viability of an organization’s talent well into the future.
Many people perceive the struggle to understand our Universe as a battle between science and God. But this is a false dichotomy.
Chess was once blamed for triggering mental health problems, including suicide and even murder. Today, the same is said of video games.
The results of a 2021 study suggest that the world’s most powerful psychedelic may be an underutilized peace-building tool.
The idea of “absolute time” was our default for millennia. But time is relative, as gravity and motion both cause time to dilate.
Psychologist Adrian Furnham has termed this effect the male hubris, female humility problem.
Wander into the deep recesses of the mind and never return the same with these existentialist books.
Small spiders use their silk threads to passively fly, a process called ballooning. Learning how could help atmospheric scientists.
If future studies prove it to be successful, this technique for the early detection of pancreatic cancer could save thousands of lives.
Scientists across a range of disciplines have helped solve Darwin’s dilemma.
The Hubble Space Telescope, 32 years after its launch, broke the all-time record for most distant star. It won’t do better.
In some Asian countries, what’s in your blood may influence your social status.
Stress-busting soundtrack or placebo effect?
The story of how Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune were made isn’t a universal one. Some gas giants were built different.
From Brahms to Tchaikovsky, here’s a curated list of composers whose music has shaped the classical canon.
It’s possible to measure philosophy’s progress in two ways. But is that really the point?
The light from Earendel took 12.9 billion years to reach Hubble. The star is millions of times brighter than our Sun and 50 times as massive.
Due to a crust of carbon, the absence of oxygen, and constant bombardment from meteorites, the planet Mercury may be littered with diamonds.
The study shows that it’s possible to map the wildly subjective psychedelic experiences to specific brain regions.
Wealth was a cushion, but even being well-off did not protect people from the harmful effects of pandemic stressors.
A radical redesign of commercial aircraft, called the flying-V plane, could increase fuel efficiency by 20%, greatly reducing emissions.
While there is more to North Korean cinema than meets the eye, the country’s film industry ultimately amounts to little more than a mouthpiece for the ruling Kim dynasty.
On Nov. 13, 1946, a scientist dropped crushed dry ice from a plane into supercooled stratus clouds.
Revolutionary techniques for understanding brain functions in animals could soon help us understand how emotions guide our lives.
Society treats teenagers as if they’re a problem to be solved, but the truth is that we have to prepare them to solve our problems. It’s time that we change the narrative.
Mutations that confer malaria resistance occur more frequently in people who live in regions where the disease is endemic.