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In all the years of NASA, we’ve never touched the Sun before. Here’s why it’s so hard. This past weekend, NASA successfully launched the Parker Solar Probe: the first spacecraft that […]
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The universe is a huge place, inconceivably vast. And it can make even the most brilliant minds feel very, very small.
Substance dependence also applies to food addiction, says a University of Michigan study.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has shocked investors and now draws the ire of the SEC after clumsily announcing that he intended to take the company private.
A team of archaeologists has discovered 3,200-year-old cheese after analyzing artifacts found in an ancient Egyptian tomb. It could be the oldest known cheese sample in the world.
In the Western world, there's a constant pressure to be happy. Paradoxically, this makes people more prone to anxiety and depression.
The coming few years should really tell us a lot more about them.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development has accused Facebook of violating the Fair Housing Act, an accusation that was also made by the National Fair Housing Alliance in March.
Respected Oxford mathematician Roger Penrose sees swirls of radioactivity in a sky map as evidence that the Big Bang isn’t true. These “Hawking rings” suggest to him that the universe expands and collapses over and over.
No international borders, no international order—and yet, most land borders are not very old: more than half were drawn after 1900.
The Universe is an enormous place, but we can’t see all the way back to the beginning. Here’s the latest record-breaker. No matter how far back we look in the […]
When it comes to optimizing your workout, breakfast might be winning again.
Throughout Europe, 92 percent of children speak multiple languages. In America, that number is 20 percent.
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Success isn't about finding one great way to achieve something and sticking with it. It's about looking at all the possible options and computing success through analysis.
Jonathan Zittell Smith, the most influential scholar of religion of the past half-century, thought that religion "is created for the scholar’s analytic purposes."
In July of 2018, there were 11 wildfires occurring north of the Arctic Circle. That's more than ever before.
According to the study, for every extra day a student experienced sleep problems, they were 10% more likely to drop a course.
The ICARUS Initiative aims to track migratory animals from space using special transmitters and antennae. The data retrieved from the project will help us conserve biodiversity but has the potential to promote human well-being and prosperity, too.
Couples who had fish more than 8 times a menstrual cycle had a 47% shorter time getting pregnant than those who didn't, and had 22% more sex than those that didn't.
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World-renowned physicist Michio Kaku thinks that one day a cancer diagnosis will be far less scary than it is today.