The Black, Caspian, and Aral Seas are the last surviving fragments of a body of water that stretched from Austria to Turkmenistan.
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Democratic freedom, rapturous religion, and newspapers created a hotbed for social experimentation in 19th-century America.
Stoicism is a big deal right now, but it has some major flaws. Here’s why you might want to hold off on becoming a Stoic.
JWST’s revolutionary views arrive in high-resolution at infrared wavelengths. Without NASA’s Spitzer first, it wouldn’t have been possible.
It may be an advantage in some contexts.
The typical car is parked 95% of the time.
Using shaped ultrasound, researchers can 3D print objects in one shot.
Baby mice can regenerate damaged hair cells — and now that we know how they do it, maybe we can, too.
Research shows how “dark” Brett Martinpersonality traits affect Bitcoin enthusiasm.
Would you want to live in any of these places?
The Fermi paradox (along with the subsequent Drake equation) is so difficult that even brilliant thinkers can make little dent in it.
Intellectual humility demands that we examine our motivations for holding certain beliefs.
Are you a video gaming master? Put it on your résumé.
A thesaurus isn’t to find big and fancy words, but a resource to help you find your rhythm.
Epigenetic entropy shows that you can’t fully understand cancer without mathematics.
Dark energy is one of the biggest mysteries in all the Universe. Is there some way to avoid “having to live with it?”
Money shame is more common than you might think.
Though ultimately incorrect, the ancient Greek philosophers blazed a conceptual trail for humankind to understand the nature of reality.
Gum disease begins in the mouth but spreads to the joints. Rheumatoid arthritis is just one of several diseases linked to poor oral health.
Anyone can have a bad day at work, but not everyone scores this high on narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism.
Protons and neutrons are held together by the strong force: with 3 colors and 3 anticolors. So why are there only 8 gluons, and not 9?
Two populations that are geographically separated today once mated a very long time ago.
With crisis management training, organizations can develop the agility to recover from crises with as little disruption as possible.
How to separate the reality from the conspiracy theory.
Some of them have survived the wilds of space for billions of years.
Nobel Laureate Roger Penrose, famed for his work on black holes, claims we’ve seen evidence from a prior Universe. Only, we haven’t.
Everyone loves a good underdog story, but the lessons we derive from them depend on how they’re told.