Our impulse to seek out agreement is stifling us, says world debate champion Bo Seo.
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Every proton contains three quarks: two up and one down. But charm quarks, heavier than the proton itself, have been found inside. How?
Nearshoring may be the manufacturing model of the future.
A concept known as “wave-particle duality” famously applies to light. But it also applies to all matter — including you.
Dead whales inspire a way to find extraterrestrial life on Mars.
Particles are everywhere, including particles from space that stream through the human body. Here’s how they prove Einstein’s relativity.
Its implications go well beyond the Earth itself, affecting even the future of space travel.
Retired astronaut Ron Garan believes that before we can begin solving our problems, we must understand our interrelatedness through the “orbital perspective.”
What astronaut Ron Garan saw in space changed his life forever – here’s what it taught him.
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The research could aid the development of more effective treatments for conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Nuclear fusion has long been seen as the future of energy. As the NIF now passes the breakeven point, how close are we to our ultimate goal?
The most important events in history have nothing to do with politics or wars.
Toxoplasmosis, which results from a chance encounter with a cougar and the parasite it carries, can push a wolf to seek alpha status.
If you gave me $400 and I gave you $3.15, would you consider yourself wealthier? That’s a financial analogy for the supposed fusion power “breakthrough.”
We all see beauty the same way.
There will always be “wolf-criers” whose claims wither under scrutiny. But aliens are certainly out there, if science dares to find them.
The popular game has a backstory rife with segregation, inequality, intellectual theft, and outlandish political theories.
Use words with plosives and affricates if you really want to make sure everyone knows you mean business.
Zen masters often have strikingly different ideas about how to live and attain enlightenment.
Leaving Hubble in the dust, JWST has officially seen a galaxy from just 320 million years after the Big Bang: at just 2.3% its current age.
Some of the weirdest characters in Greek mythology were Athenian kings.
The prescription poop can correct life-threatening bacterial imbalances in the gut.
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. That old adage roughly sums up the idea of antifragility, a term coined by the statistician and writer Nassim Taleb. The term refers […]
The AI is helping Twitter users plot movies, design meal plans, and more.
The very dust that blocks our view of the distant, luminous objects in the Universe is responsible for our entire existence.
“Carpe diem” was only one part of Horace’s poem Odes 1.11.
“Kids are always asking two questions of parents: ‘Am I safe?’ and ‘Am I real?'”
The insanity of the academic job market laid out in numbers.
