Nietzsche both wished he was as stupid as a cow so he wouldn’t have to contemplate existence, and pitied cows for being so stupid that they couldn’t contemplate existence.
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Why, exactly, should you die for your child?
“This will be one of the most important datasets since the mapping of the Human Genome.”
The structure of our Solar System has been known for centuries. When we finally started finding exoplanets, they surprised everyone.
Harvard psychiatrist Robert Waldinger discusses how 80 years of ongoing research show relationships to be vital for health and happiness.
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Books that were rarely taught in 1963, when baby boomers were students, became classics when those same boomers were teachers and parents.
From boosting empathy to improving therapy, virtual reality is poised to change our ideas of the self.
As viewed by the MeerKAT telescope, this radio view of the Milky Way blows away every other way we’ve ever seen our home galaxy.
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From forming bound states to normal scattering, many possibilities abound for matter-antimatter interactions. So why do they annihilate?
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Predicted way back in the 1960s, the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 completed the Standard Model. Here’s why it remains fascinating.
Can a shared language promote peace? Some people think so.
We only detected our very first gravitational wave in 2015. Over the next two decades, we’ll have thousands more.
The East India Company issued stocks to minimize the risk on their unpredictable but highly lucrative voyages. The rest is history.
Wander into the deep recesses of the mind and never return the same with these existentialist books.
CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is the most powerful particle accelerator ever. To go even further, we’ll have to overcome something big.
A series of recent studies found that people with healthy levels of vitamin D were less likely to contract COVID-19 and suffer severe complications from it.
The most iconic, longest-lived space telescope of all, NASA’s Hubble, is experiencing orbital decay as the solar cycle peaks. Here’s why.
Research suggests that experience may matter more than innate ability when it comes to a sense of direction.
In the early stages of the hot Big Bang, there were only free protons and neutrons: no atomic nuclei. How did the first elements form from them?
In the early stages of the hot Big Bang, matter and antimatter were (almost) balanced. After a brief while, matter won out. Here’s how.
Time for a status check before watching “Moon Knight.”
In his new book, “Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy,” former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang explores how media narratives can warp public perception of political candidates.
Fossil Cycad National Monument held America’s richest deposit of petrified cycadeoid plants, until it didn’t.
Venus Life Finder could launch as early as 2023.