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Despite itself, this collection of awful cartography may just make a few useful observations.
It’s not what you have, it’s what you do with it.
The Standard Model explains all the particles and interactions we see. But it can’t explain this. Of all the particles that we know of, the elusive neutrino is by far the […]
The second reason Sarah Robb O’Hagan — CEO of Flywheel Sports and former president of Gatorade — lost a job in her 20s is that “I was actually not courageous […]
That’s a sharp increase from the 1960s when it took the same share of scientists an average of 35 years to drop out of academia.
Technology’s rapid advances may slow down, limiting our possibilities.
The bold technique involves surgically implanting a so-called microneedle patch directly onto the heart.
Breakthrough Starshot is moving ahead with an audacious vision for space exploration.
With a total of 10 black holes detected, what we’ve learned about the Universe is truly amazing. On September 14th, 2015, just days after LIGO first turned on at its new-and-improved […]
Jewish people living in nearly all European countries report that anti-Semitism has grown in recent years.
Secretary-General António Guterres said corruption is “an assault on the values of the United Nations.”
The National Institutes of Health recently began a $300-million study to examine the effects of screen time on developing brains.
China’s rise has necessitated a global PR push. It includes influencing how the movies you watch depict China.
More and more research points to a serious mistake we made in how biomechanics works.
How do we see extremely short-lived stars in places that haven’t experienced star-formation in over 10 billion years? The most fundamental truth about stars is that when they run out of […]
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is updated for the 21st century in a new study.
There are two main types of sexual fantasies. One, however, is more destructive than the other.
The quick test would be a breakthrough in cancer treatment.
With the help of positive psychology and the happiness industry, many of us seem to be running in the exact opposite direction of happiness.
Einstein’s explanation is the only one that works. When Newton first proposed the law of universal gravitation, it marked the very first time that we realized the same rule governing how […]
On Friday, NASA’s InSight Mars lander captured and transmitted historic audio from the red planet.
Interactive map reveals the horror — and the patterns — of murder in 14th-century London.
Altria Group Inc., maker of Marlboro cigarettes, said it’s taking a 45 percent stake in Cronos Group, a major Canadian medical and recreational marijuana provider.
The project involves a high-altitude balloon, tons of tiny particles and knowledge gained from a violent volcano eruption in 1991.
Luxembourg will offer the world’s first fare-free public transit system, but is there really such a thing as a free ride?
It may have been captured by Neptune since it formed, but Triton remains king of the Kuiper belt. Our Solar System is arguably the most well-studied corner of the Universe, with […]