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One god stands for order, logic, and reason. The other stands for chaos, madness, and drunkenness. Nietzsche thinks you need both.

Seneca thought the use of ice was a “true fever of the most malignant kind.”

Business acumen training can help everyone from individual contributors to directors learn how to seize opportunities for growth.

The brilliant mind who discovered the spacetime solution for rotating black holes claims singularities don’t physically exist. Is he right?

Playing the long game in Japan is about creating something so enduring that it becomes timeless.

Are hardened wood knives and nails coming to a store near you?

Psychotherapist Israa Nasir explains how a “value-aligned life” can help us crush our goals — without being crushed by the need to accomplish more.

The Hyperloop is physically possible, but engineering challenges will make its construction very difficult. Also, accidents would be catastrophic.

All the things that surround and compose us didn’t always exist. But describing their origin depends on what ‘nothing’ means.

According to the legendary investor, the best method is a blueprint for “extreme success.”

It may be time for a cosmological paradigm shift.

The answer may lie in the particular way sand forms on Titan.

Their ear structures were not that different from ours.

It’s like radar, but with light. Distributed acoustic sensing — DAS — picks up tremors from volcanoes, quaking ice and deep-sea faults, as well as traffic rumbles and whale calls.

His crime was so great, he was not only sentenced to death but his name was to be erased from memory.

Rocks and minerals don’t simply reflect light. They play with it and interact with light as both a wave and a particle.

The existence of another watery world in the outer solar system may offer clues to how such seas form — and hope for another spot to search for life.

A part of human nature needs to be challenged and feel strong. Today, we fulfill that need with “surrogate activities.”

It’s the paradoxical observation that the more we try to process, the less we actually can.

It’s high time owners learned to speak their dog’s language.

Perhaps the whole Universe is the result of a vacuum fluctuation, originating from what we could call quantum nothingness. 

In our common experience, you can’t get something for nothing. In the quantum realm, something really can emerge from nothing.

Take a closer look at the different types of reasoning you use every day.

This opens the door to manipulating networks of specific neurons.

The new material may make marine uranium extraction economically feasible.

For a thousand light-years in all directions, there’s a “bubble” that the Sun sits at the center of. Here’s the story behind it.

A new AI-generated map of dark matter shows previously undiscovered filamentary structures connecting galaxies.

“When molecules misbehave, it can lead to great insight.”

A new discovery pushes back the origin of these technologies by about 40,000 years.

Through humility, the old arrogance of infallibility crumbles. And in that there is genuine hope to prevent wrongful convictions.