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To preserve biodiversity and ecosystems, protected areas should be connected into a gigantic World Park.
The Persian polymath and philosopher of the Islamic Golden Age teaches us about self-awareness.
Master negotiator Chris Voss breaks down how to get what you want during negotiations.
A clever new study definitively measures how long it takes for quantum particles to pass through a barrier.
Jains believe that karma weighs the soul down. This can be overcome through extreme asceticism, in which one slowly withdraws from life.
Filaments, hundreds of millions of light-years long, were just caught spinning. In our own cosmic backyard, everything we see spins, rotates, and revolves in some fashion or other. Our planet […]
Cosmic rays aren’t just limited by the speed of light. Even among non-scientists, it’s well-understood that there’s an ultimate speed limit to the Universe: the speed of light. If you’re a […]
Are we enslaved by the finer things in life?
In America, Cup Noodles has succeeded by hiding its Japanese roots.
Teaching your child metacognitive techniques can improve their learning and life skills.
Entropy always increases, but that doesn’t mean it was zero to start with. One of the most inviolable laws in the Universe is the second law of thermodynamics: that in any […]
Americans lose an estimated 321 million work days every year due to anxiety and depression.
Scientists are solving the problem of costly energy storage.
Astronomers find these five chapters to be a handy way of conceiving the universe’s incredibly long lifespan.
Even 13.8 billion years after the Big Bang, we can reconstruct the first 3 minutes. About 100 years ago, we began to truly understand the nature of the Universe for the […]
Aliens symbolize the best and worst of humanity. When we dream of aliens, we are pondering our future selves.
How can we track the spread of COVID-19 where testing is not widely available? How can global health be improved by innovation and cooperation? Over the last few years, Kinsa […]
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A critical thinking framework developed by psychologists can help teach mental skills necessary for our times.
What speech is harmful, how do we know, and what do we do if we find out?
To date, only one research vessel has ever encountered a milky sea.
Why do we deprive students of the historical and cultural context of science?
Whether you’re speaking at a wedding or your own TED Talk, here’s how you can make the experience a little less harrowing.
A cartogram makes it easy to compare regional and national GDPs at a glance.
A new agricultural revolution could forever change the planet.
Or is ‘new space’ created in between the gaps of the ‘old’ space? It’s been almost 100 years since humanity first reached a revolutionary conclusion about our Universe: space itself doesn’t […]
By leveraging the difference between lit and shadowed areas, a new energy source perfect for wearables is invented.
Bill Moyers once said that a benefit of being a journalist is learning in public. This relies on two important skills: An ability to ask good questions and the willingness […]
65 million years ago, an asteroid strike caused the 5th great mass extinction. Could we save Earth, today, from a similar event?
Hunter-gatherers probably had more spare time than you.