More than just a pretty face, the Venus de Milo (rediscovered on this date in 1820) has changed ideas of female beauty ever since, often in surprising ways.
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The ban brings to light a bigger issue.
A ninth planet does not only exist, but it causes comets to rain upon Earth, creating extinction events, says astrophysicist.
Warhol may be dead, but Pop Art is not—it’s more international, relevant, and alive than ever.
Late night comedians are taking on The Man like it’s their job.
How does he deliver presents to hundreds of millions of households in just one night? With physics, of course! “Our family was too strange and weird for even Santa Claus to […]
“Humans are allergic to change,” Grace Hopper once said. “They love to say, ‘We’ve always done it this way.’ I try to fight that. That’s why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.”
Ice mountains, frozen nitrogen flats and surprisingly familiar features show what the outermost worlds looks like. “We’ve learned that the view of four inner rocky planets and four outer gas giants […]
American stuff is the stuff of American history, as recorded in still life painting.
The ability to delay gratification is vital for a successful life, and research suggests it is a skill that can be cultivated.
Building encryption into everyday services is more than just good business.
The researcher behind the famed Dunning-Kruger Effect has found expertise can lead us to claim impossible knowledge.
And it didn’t even need a transit to do it! “Mars is much closer to the characteristics of Earth. It has a fall, winter, summer and spring. North Pole, South Pole, […]
Don’t know Ellsworth Kelly or his art? Now’s your chance — he’s dead.
As we consider the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War, the question arises – can any war be fought as a “just” war?
Where do we learn what matters? Are new forces crowding out the old sources of stories that shape us?
Traveling to the future is possible, but the “back” part runs into trouble. Mr. Strickland: “I noticed your band is on the roster for the dance auditions after school today. […]
Locate any of the 57 trillion three-by-three-metre squares on Earth with just three words.
Before there was Cruise, Stallone, and Schwarzenegger, there was Douglas Fairbanks.
Have we learnt nothing from the racist, ineffective laws that form the basis of America’s longest war: the War on Drugs?
We know music and emotion are connected, but neuroscience tells us why music is such an integral part of what makes us human.
Cancer is the scariest disease, but not all causes of cancer frighten us equally.
Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, and Joel and Ethan Coen are bringing it all together.
If they eat everything they come in contact with, how do quasars shine so bright? “Twinkle, twinkle quasi-star.Biggest puzzle from afar.How unlike the other ones.Brighter than a billion suns.Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star.How […]
As children become more overscheduled, playtime decreases and the pressure to achieve increases. The cost of that trade-off is high.
The Orion Nebula demonstrates the answer. “So numerous are the objects which meet our view in the heavens, that we cannot imagine a point of space where some light would not […]
They won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics, but their legacy’s just beginning. “I know all about neutrinos, and my friend here knows about everything else in astrophysics.” –John Bahcall, […]
The threat is real and many scientists and engineers are standing behind them.
Prepare to watch Democrats and Republicans fight over ownership of the pope and his air of moral legitimacy: Let the Great American Papal Tug-of-War begin!
Lately, we’ve become so infatuated with creating the next big thing, rushing headlong into crafting new technologies that we’ve neglected to think through the ethics of it. Just because we can doesn’t mean we should.