“What am I missing?” is a question that journalist Mónica Guzmán thinks more people should start asking.
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Learning styles are supposed to help learners take ownership of their education, but research doesn’t back up this well-intentioned myth.
For millennia, diamonds were the hardest known material, but they only rank at #7 on the current list. Can you guess which material is #1?
From succubi to aliens, stories of abductions or other unsettling encounters have been with us for millennia. What explains them?
People around the world, mostly Generation Z, are obsessed with the look and feel of gothic, elitist universities. Why?
Nearly 200 orbital launches are scheduled for 2022.
Any dataset that can be quantified over time can be turned into a contest that is both exciting and (a little bit) enlightening.
If computers can beat us at chess, maybe they could beat us at math, too.
"You gotta know when to fold 'em."
In a world without "bullshit jobs," we would have more hours available to us to learn new skills and to unleash our creative side.
Hermann Minkowski called Einstein a "lazybones" with a "not very solid" education. Less than 10 years later, he would eat his words.
Our greatest tool for exploring the world inside atoms and molecules, and specifically electron transitions, just won 2023's Nobel Prize.
The gospels imply that Jesus became famous as much for his exorcisms as his ministry.
After my father died, my journey of rediscovery began with the Czech language.
Two very different ideas, wormholes and quantum entanglement, might be fundamentally related. What would "ER = EPR" mean for our Universe?
Psychologists point to specific reasons that make it hard for us to admit our wrongdoing.
From the present day all the way to less than 400 million years after the Big Bang, we're seeing how the Universe grew up like never before.
JWST just found its first transiting exoplanet, and it's 99% the size of Earth. But with no atmosphere seen, perhaps air is truly rare.
From "shell shock" to "combat fatigue," the wars of the past century have violently illuminated the power trauma can wield over the mind and body.
Ingenuity is remarkable. But these 5 exploration ideas are revolutionary. Telescopes are our initial tools for revealing and studying foreign worlds. Hubble images of Mars, particularly around the regions with […]
Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York is the kind of film that makes you laugh and cry at the same time.
The number of PhDs has been exceeding the available academic positions since as early as the mid-1990s.
The Chegg cheating scandal reveals a critical need to rethink the student experience in post-COVID education.
Brands manufacture meaning through consensus; people must strive to create their own.
When you measure not just light, but light’s polarization, you learn so much more. It’s been over 100 years since the first solution for a black hole was discovered in General […]
The scientists, not the fossil fuel industry, were right all along. Back in 1990, the world’s top climate scientists convened to put together a report on the state of Earth’s climate. […]
Finding alien technology on the seafloor would be truly incredible. This extraordinary claim, however, is debunked by the actual evidence.
This year marks 2,000 years since the birth of the Roman author of the first natural encyclopedia.
Sex, it turns out, isn’t as easy or simple as popular culture might lead us to believe.
Recasting the iconic Carrington Event as just one of many superstorms in Earth’s past, scientists reveal the potential for even more massive eruptions from the sun.