With infrared capabilities and image sharpness far beyond Hubble’s limits, JWST looked at Hubble’s deepest field, revealing so much more.
You are an energy field — but not the “chakras” or “auras” kind.
The content of our long-term memories is constantly “reconstructed” by our brains. The same is true of memories formed mere seconds ago.
An un-crewed sailing drone discovered the unusually shaped, slumbering seamount.
Burj Al Babas may one day be full of wealthy vacationers, but for now it’s a ghost town in the center of Turkey.
The lack of friendship is particularly a problem for men. But there are easy ways to make friends.
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Adolescents actively shape the transformation of religion and become the bearers of new religious patterns, worldviews, and values.
Though he renounced philosophy, Stephen Hawking’s final theory of the universe redraws the basic foundations of cosmology.
The Universe is grand, awe-inspiring, and greater than we likely imagine. Even astrophysicists get anxious thinking about it, but we cope.
It may be time for a cosmological paradigm shift.
Treating “oniomania” or compulsive buying disorder is about protecting your finances as well as your mental health.
There are three barriers we need to overcome to have better, more productive arguments.
Science isn’t synonymous with technology; it’s about a way of thinking.
The double-slit experiment, hundreds of years after it was first performed, still holds the key mystery at the heart of quantum physics.
For many years, some cosmologists embraced the idea of an eternal, steady state universe. But science triumphed over philosophical prejudice.
When it comes to spotting a lie, less is more.
Delay the instant gratification of online knowledge and first seek out the wisdom within yourself.
You might suppress your emotions when you walk through the door at work. But your colleagues can still feel them.
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With a massive, charged nucleus orbited by tiny electrons, atoms are such simple objects. Miraculously, they make up everything we know.
Frozen adversity set the stage for an explosion of diversity.
Unmasking a “convenient untruth” in U.S. politics.
Try writing a novel without using the letter “e.”
In 1903, a Vermont doctor bet $50 that he could cross America by car. It took him 63 days, $8,000, and 600 gallons of gas.
“Imagination is more important than knowledge” is often taken to mean that your conceptions outweigh what’s real. That’s not what he said.
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The moths in your garden might hear your tomato plant’s pain.
When the going gets tough, nothing beats a wide network of tried-and-true connections.
Mongol forces never fully conquered the continent, but they played a key role in its historical development.