For some people, there is only one thing to live for. They commit their entire being to that thing. They are dangerous.
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Waun Maun was an ancient Welsh stone circle that had an awful lot in common with Stonehenge.
Many people believe that in the face of profound evil, they would have the courage to speak up. It might be harder than we think.
Argentina's black market for cash is embracing crypto — but it's not what crypto proponents expected.
We forget how unnatural a lot of formal education is. "Learning how to learn" requires bridging the gap between the abstract and the natural.
How can you maximize the amount of love and happiness in your life? One of history's greatest scientists found the answer: with math.
Emotional intelligence is a skill sought by many employers. Here's how to raise yours.
Previous research suggesting it's all about prolactin may be missing the mark.
How the simple act of watching twilight can radically transform our perception of the world and our role within it.
For many years, cosmologists have claimed the Universe is 13.8 billion years old. A new paper says no, it's 26.7 billion. How do we decide?
Even a year like 2020 couldn’t prepare Americans for the first few weeks of 2021. The year’s opening act was a siege on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of […]
The first observational evidence showing the Universe is expanding is 100 years old now: in 2023. Here's the story of its 100th anniversary.
In New Zealand, ambitious Kiwis want to launch a lawn mowing business; in South Africa, it's cooking gas refills. Start-up dreams vary widely.
The problems that Americans face are often too complex for fact-checking alone.
Whether NASA likes it or not, humans eventually will be having space sex.
About 150 million years ago, a long-necked sauropod came down with a respiratory infection. The rest is history...or is it?
Was there an intelligent, technologically advanced species long before humans existed? Could there have been a dinosaur civilization?
Can a war be won from the air? A group of renegade pilots in the 1930s thought so.
Forget billions and billions. When it comes to the number of galaxies in the Universe, both theorists' and observers' estimates are too low.
Light therapy might help your natural circadian rhythm and even stave off seasonal depression.
Today, we could use Big Data to radically reform democracy. Tomorrow, we could build nanofabricators and usher in an era of abundance. Is society ready?
Despite billions of years of life on Earth, humans first arose only ~300,000 years ago. It took all that time to make our arrival possible.
“It doesn’t erase what happened to you. It just changes the impact it has on your life.”
For decades people have arranged to freeze their bodies after death, dreaming of resurrection by advanced future medicine. Many met a fate far grislier than death.
Why, exactly, should you die for your child?
Every Christmas could be the last Christmas.
The famous social robot is about to start rolling off the assembly line.
Life became a possibility in the Universe as soon as the raw ingredients were present. But living, inhabited worlds required a bit more.