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This year marks 2,000 years since the birth of the Roman author of the first natural encyclopedia.

Learning styles are supposed to help learners take ownership of their education, but research doesn’t back up this well-intentioned myth.

We should not romanticize ancient Egyptian culture.

The Kazungula Bridge connects Zambia and Botswana, barely missing Namibia and Zimbabwe.

The gospels imply that Jesus became famous as much for his exorcisms as his ministry.

Roughly the size of a thumbnail, this newly discovered toadlet has some anatomical surprises.

In a world without “bullshit jobs,” we would have more hours available to us to learn new skills and to unleash our creative side.

Brands manufacture meaning through consensus; people must strive to create their own.

Walter Pitts rose from the streets to MIT, but couldn’t escape himself.

If computers can beat us at chess, maybe they could beat us at math, too.

We bring multifaceted selves to our interactions, and in these interactions co-create each other again and again. 

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.

Dennis Klatt developed trailblazing text-to-speech systems before losing his own voice to cancer.

The Chegg cheating scandal reveals a critical need to rethink the student experience in post-COVID education.

Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York is the kind of film that makes you laugh and cry at the same time.

Spirals, ellipticals, and irregulars are all more common than ring galaxies. At last, we know how these ultra-rare objects are made.

For some reason, the charges on the electron and proton are equal and opposite, and their numbers are equal, too. But why?

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 […]

The number of PhDs has been exceeding the available academic positions since as early as the mid-1990s.

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. […]

Psychologists point to specific reasons that make it hard for us to admit our wrongdoing.

Neptune holds records in our Solar System, but the Universe gets even faster. Here on Earth, extreme weather events can cause dramatic wind speed spikes. When hurricanes are at their most […]

Famished, not famous: retrace Orwell’s hunger days, when he was one of the city’s legion of poor foreigners.

The world isn’t ending! But we are likely at the beginning of a profound transformation.

In 1990, we only knew of the planets in our own Solar System. Today, the exoplanet count is more than 5000. Here’s what we’ve learned.

We’ve already observed three cases where it’s happened. When you look at an object in space, it’s pretty easy to tell if it’s a star or a planet. Stars are […]

For the ancients, hospitality was an inviolable law enforced by gods and priests and anyone else with the power to make you pay dearly for mistreating a stranger.

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 […]

Hubble’s still going strong after 31+ years. James Webb will never make it that long. Every decision that’s made — in both astronomy and in life — comes with its own set of pros and […]

From Brahms to Tchaikovsky, here’s a curated list of composers whose music has shaped the classical canon.