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It is projected to last for more than 100 minutes, and begins Friday July 27.
Simple diagrams reflect straightforward grids that make navigation easy. Complex diagrams equal ‘messy’ street grids, making it harder to find your way.
You can name a dozen rock stars on drugs, but can you name the philosophers who partook? We're here to help.
The continuing cyber threats to American democracy expose the serious vulnerabilities of its Internet and call for dramatic changes.
A new set of images from NASA’s Chandra X-ray observatory shows us what we’ve never seen before. The Pillars of Creation, 7,000 light years away in the Eagle Nebula, represents one […]
A New Zealand study shows a 24% increase in productivity... by working less.
Unless we take action, climate change will have a major, far-reaching impact on the internet.
Does opening up a relationship to new sexual playmates strengthen the bond between a committed pair, or, does doing so compromise it?
Only the pyramids stand today. What did the other 6 look like?
We've long known what you eat matters. When you eat matters, too.
How does money stay valuable? It just keeps growing. But is that healthy?
Thanks to work programs and medication, a study conducted by the University of Oslo is seeing big changes in participants lives.
Scientists have been probing our solar system for extraterrestrial life.
Everything you wanted to know about black holes, supernova, and quasars but were afraid to ask.
If we know how big the observable Universe is, why can’t we figure out how big the unobservable part is? 13.8 billion years ago, the Big Bang occurred. The Universe was […]
Physicist Michio Kaku discusses the main difficulties humans face in colonizing Mars and how to overcome them.
Do not succumb to “funklessness”. Join us as we nerd out to a staggering degree on utopian afrofuturism, David Bowie, and the sci-fi-inflected music of the ‘70s. With Jason Heller, Hugo-award winning author of Strange Stars.
The images are being collected on a Flickr page dedicated to the Apollo missions.
A new study's findings suggests that legalization has “produced some demonstrable and persistent benefit" to police departments in Washington and Colorado.