Thomas Baldwin’s Airopaidia (1786) includes the earliest sketches of the earth from a balloon.
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Hippocrates overturned conventional wisdom and invented modern medicine.
It’s a wild idea, but there’s a way to test it. No matter how far we look out in the Universe, there’s always more “Universe” to see. Even at the extreme […]
Today, it’s common knowledge, but it took scientists centuries to figure out.
The treatment is here, but are we ready?
Too few babies — not overpopulation — is likely to be a major problem this century.
And a combination of all three might take us farther than ever. If you want to see the farthest objects in the Universe, you have to know not only where to […]
Must a religious story be confirmed as a true fact to be effective and inspiring?
The helicopter’s sixth mission almost went down in disaster.
ExtendNY stretches the Big Apple’s gridiron all across the globe – with some bizarre effects
People admire complexity. Many attribute it to the work of superior minds, those with the skills or intelligence to wrangle challenging ideas into a workable—if not always comprehensible—whole. This esteem […]
‘Fast Optical Bursts’ will confound ground-based astronomy. As of 2021, planet Earth is currently experiencing the least pristine night sky in recorded history. Prior to the development of artificial lighting, […]
Mastodons, rhinos, and even camels — all in the great state of California.
As droughts threaten water supplies across the planet, some municipalities aim to utilize an untapped resource: sewage water.
Or is ‘new space’ created in between the gaps of the ‘old’ space? It’s been almost 100 years since humanity first reached a revolutionary conclusion about our Universe: space itself doesn’t […]
The last image puts it all in perspective. Compared to what we find in our Solar System, galaxies are truly enormous. The Sun may be 109 times the diameter of […]
Determining if the universe is infinite pushes the limits of our knowledge.
The tiny swimmers appear to transmit signals that “persuade” the female body to have a baby.
How our fantasy world of the past has become everyday reality.
Participants with high levels of narcissism showed high levels of aggression, spreading gossip, bullying others, and more.
Participants were asked to complete a simple attention task as well as a more challenging “placekeeping” task.
A lithium imbalance appears linked to suicide.
Diogenes was no doubt odd, but Cynicism might just help our overcrowded lives.
Some wild animals thrive near humans, but only up to a point.
Has all this happened before, and will all this happen once again? There are only a few questions, when we ask them, that force us to reckon with the fundamental nature […]
Say hello to your new colleague, the Workplace Environment Architect.
A new AI-generated map of dark matter shows previously undiscovered filamentary structures connecting galaxies.
People who go ballistic over other people’s eating sounds aren’t just cranky — they have misophonia.