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Each of our three nearest stars might have an Earth-like planet in orbit around it. Here’s what we’ll learn when we finally observe it.
Join the lauded author of Range in conversation with best-selling author and poker pro Maria Konnikova!
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Our temporal experience of the world is not divided into a series of neat segments, yet that’s how we talk about time.
Sun-like stars live for around 10 billion years, but our Universe is only 13.8 billion years old. So what’s the maximum lifetime for a star?
The Netflix show about a Birmingham crime family and their personal demons concluded earlier this month.
When maps meet stamps, you get a love child called “cartophilately.”
As particles travel through the Universe, there’s a speed limit to how fast they’re allowed to go. No, not the speed of light: below it.
In all of science, no figures have changed the world more than Einstein and Newton. Will anyone ever be as revolutionary again?
Unlike the first Roaring Twenties, these won’t end with a Great Depression.
Dennis Klatt developed trailblazing text-to-speech systems before losing his own voice to cancer.
As bad as this sounds, a new essay suggests that we live in a surprisingly egalitarian age.
The ability to differentiate your emotions might make you less likely to suffer from depression, alcoholism, and anger issues.
What happens when simulation theory becomes more than a fascinating thought experiment?
The year 2020 will go down in history as one that shook our inner and outer worlds.
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New ideas inevitably face opposition. A new book called “The Human Element” argues that overcoming opposition requires understanding the concepts of “Fuel” and “Friction.”
Debate is a verbal sport with winners and losers. As such, it is less about the truth and more about who looks and sounds the best.
Ready to see the future? Nanotronics CEO Matthew Putman talks innovation and the solutions that are within reach.
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In a world of rising cynicism, a celebration of our capacity to create, adapt, and thrive.
After 15 years of monitoring 68 objects known as millisecond pulsars, we’ve found the Universe’s background gravitational wave signal!
“Choose not to be harmed—and you won’t feel harmed,” advised Stoic philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius. He had a point.
Where did the “seed” magnetic field come from in the first place?
Unless you have a critical mass of heavy elements when your star first forms, planets, including rocky ones, are practically impossible.
We forget how unnatural a lot of formal education is. “Learning how to learn” requires bridging the gap between the abstract and the natural.
Jean Paul Sartre summed up the existentialist idea of “bad faith” through a waiter who acted a bit too much like a waiter.
A study says nature’s candy can be a valuable supplement to sunblock.
About 150 million years ago, a long-necked sauropod came down with a respiratory infection. The rest is history…or is it?
Discussions of human evolution are usually backward looking, as if the greatest triumphs and challenges were in the distant past.