We rightly celebrate Winston Churchill as one of the world’s greatest leaders — but for all the wrong reasons.
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Donate a kidney now, and your loved one will have priority status if they need one later.
JWST has seen more distant galaxies than any other observatory, ever. But many candidates for “most distant of all” are likely impostors.
Meet the scientist mixing mentalism with principles from positive psychology and the science of human potential.
Gravitation, all on its own, can reveal what’s present in the cosmos like nothing else.
After almost a century in print, “How to Win Friends and Influence People” still has lessons to teach us.
Research suggests that employees with criminal records are far less likely to quit their jobs, perhaps due to a greater sense of loyalty.
We need a hypothesis that accounts for both the fine-tuning of physics for life but also the arbitrariness and gratuitous suffering we find in the world.
How one man’s divine dream became a poultry-shaped reality.
Each year, over half a million migrants cross the deadly jungle separating Colombia from Panama in search of a better life in the United States.
Fermilab’s TeVatron just released the best mass measurement of the W-boson, ever. Here’s what doesn’t add up.
We think of physical reality as what objectively exists, independent of any observer. But relativity and quantum physics say otherwise.
It could make enough drinking water for a family of four.
An interactive “globe of notability” shows the curious correspondences and the strange landscape of global fame.
“The only options left were experimental approaches in clinical trials.”
Only humans can voluntarily conjure new objects and events in our minds.
Wireless charging isn’t just for phones and laptops. It could also power medical devices like heart implants.
From Brahms to Tchaikovsky, here’s a curated list of composers whose music has shaped the classical canon.
To understand Vincent van Gogh, we must first debunk the myth of the tortured artist. Van Gogh believed his illness inhibited his creativity.
Veteran investor Sujal Patel, co-founder and CEO of Nautilus Biotechnology, helps us sift golden nuggets from the loose shale of entrepreneurship.
When Tal Golesworthy was told he was at risk of his aorta bursting, he wasn’t impressed with the surgery on offer – so he came up with his own idea.
A team of scientists hopes deep-earth lithium could sustain America’s vast demand for batteries. But extracting it won’t be easy.
Virgin birth – which involves the development of an unfertilised egg – has preoccupied humans for aeons. And although it can’t happen in mammals, it does seem to be possible in […]
If we were born trillions of years in the future, could we even figure out our cosmic history?
A medical entomologist points to metabolism, body odor, and mindset.
Neuroscientists and artists alike are making the case that we could transform the world through psychedelics.
When your passion becomes your day job, sometimes the day job becomes a chore.
Using physics, Ross Chastain floored it during the final turn, scraping the wall and passing 5 cars to advance to the NASCAR championship.
Zombies aren’t a modern-day obsession. Throughout history, fear of the undead led to bizarre burial rituals all over the world.
Billions of years ago, the ever-increasing entropy must’ve been much lower: the past hypothesis. Here’s how cosmic inflation solves it.