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There’s the textbook answer, then there’s the real answer.
After cryptoassets, a wave of central bank digital currencies is set to revolutionize our ideas about what money is and how to manage it.
SpinLaunch will cleverly attempt to reach space with minimal rocket fuel. But will physics prevent a full-scale version from succeeding?
Population growth is driven by three changes: Fertility, mortality, and migration.
We cannot afford to dream about living on other worlds while we continue to destroy ours.
These 10 best practices can help organizations develop high-quality and engaging training videos for employees.
You don’t have to be an emperor to apply these rules to daily living.
From astrobiology to geology, a Moon base could serve as a laboratory unlike anything on Earth.
The image you’re seeing isn’t a hole in the Universe, and the cosmic voids that do exist aren’t hole-like at all.
By challenging your preconceptions, art offers a framework by which you can solve problems.
Its apples taste bad, but institutions all over the world want a descendant or clone of the tree, anyway.
You want your baby’s name to be unique, but so does everyone else.
If everyone just showed up to their appointments, $150 billion of waste could be averted.
We want to fight invasive species. But to wage a war, you have to know who your enemy is.
We think of physical reality as what objectively exists, independent of any observer. But relativity and quantum physics say otherwise.
From health to leadership abilities, a good sense of humor can help improve many aspects of life.
What began as public outcry against Iran’s so-called morality police has snowballed into a mass movement targeting the very essence of the Islamic republic.
In the future, driving an app across a bridge could let engineers know how safe it is.
At 1,600 light years away, the black hole is practically in our cosmic backyard.
For centuries, the only way to travel between the Old and New World was through ships like the RMS Lusitania. Experiences varied wildly depending on your income.
It’s rare that one single image packs so much beauty and science simultaneously. This Hubble view of a nearby star-forming region has both.
They are expected to be cheaper to build and even more reliable than today’s nuclear plants.
The cannabis plant produces both THC – the psychoactive component in marijuana – and the compound commonly known as CBD, which does not lead to a “high.”
Three years after the pandemic began, we still don’t know the origin of COVID. A strange lack of curiosity has stifled the debate.
Supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies gobble up whatever matter ventures too close, becoming active. Here’s how they work.
Methane is a shorter-lived but more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Cleaning it up could have a quick impact on global warming.
Brown noise, the better-known white noise, and even pink noise are all sonic hues.
Years of shoddy research have overstated the risk.