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A new study estimated the untapped potential of wind energy across Europe.
The physicist was both a gentleman and scholar.
With 14 Tony nominations, HADESTOWN is redefining what a Broadway musical can be. Its creator, songwriter/singer Anaïs Mitchell sits down with Jason Gots to talk about the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, making old things new, and leaving her songwriting cave (temporarily) for the theater.
Retail therapy has been proven to make us happier, but is there a catch?
This modern therapy technique has been shown to be effective and easy to learn — could teaching it to students help cut off a growing mental health crisis?
The following is an excerpt from Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity by Arup K. Chakraborty and Andrey S. Shaw. Reprinted with Permission from The MIT PRESS. Copyright 2021. Koch’s Postulates, Anthrax, […]
With 45% of recent college graduates under or unemployed, it’s time to explore new solutions.
Future-minded companies are investing in soft skills and digital learning to empower their talent.
As the world seems to spin ever faster, “agility” has become more than something to which a business might aspire — it’s become an absolute necessity for any company looking […]
Scientists figured out how a certain treatment for skin cancer gives some patients a visual “superpower.”
She may not be ours forever.
Existential dread, meet astronomical wonder.
“Everything in society today that can be solved by straightforward analysis gets solved immediately,” says Leonard Mlodinow, theoretical physicist and author of Elastic. Unfortunately, many problems aren’t that simple. To work […]
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Notice anything different? The biggest ideas of the 21st century just got a makeover.
We know he is on the left, but why? And how left is left anyhow?
All the things that surround us and make us up weren’t always here. But where did it all come from? The Universe, as we see it today, sure is full of […]
Can researchers use data science to accurately predict the future?
The current focus on the Chinese and Jews is nothing new.
Ever want to move forward but find you’re in your own way?
Controversial map names CEOs of 100 companies producing 71 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions.
It’s 100 years since astronomy’s famous ‘great debate.’ We still haven’t learned the most compelling lesson of all. So, you’ve arrived at a crossroads: you think the world works in a […]
Forgetting them, at any step, can lead to unscientific conclusions. No one, not even the smartest among us, were competent scientists from the outset. The concept of science is simple […]
Just because you don’t believe in God doesn’t mean you aren’t superstitious.
We’re living longer than ever, but few of us will save enough to afford this historical boon.
Today, our observable Universe extends for 46 billion light-years in all directions. But early on, things were much smaller. There are few things we can conceive of that are as mind-bogglingly […]
A new hypothesis suggests that you can “catch” noncommunicable diseases from other people via the microbiome.
“Deepfakes” and “cheap fakes” are becoming strikingly convincing — even ones generated on freely available apps.
The way in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s fictional detective Sherlock Holmes solves even the most challenging of mysteries is more than just dazzling fun. In fact, says Maria Konnikova, author […]