After docking at the International Space Station, the unmanned capsule executed a fiery and carefully choreographed return to Earth.
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How can a misfolded protein be behind some of the strangest and deadliest diseases out there?
Anxious? Dr. Frankl suggested you take a different view of things.
Two men formerly close to President Donald Trump are now facing prison in a development that could prove consequential for Trump’s longevity in office and the U.S. political system in general.
Do you have a magnetic compass in your head?
In Natural Causes, journalist Barbara Ehrenreich questions our obsession with wellness.
Swirling in the Pacific Ocean is a loose patch of garbage that measures 1 million square miles—about three times the size of France. Now, one organization is beginning to clean it up.
The solar eclipse of May 29, 1919, was the nail in the coffin of a Newtonian Universe. On May 29, 1919, the world changed forever. For hundreds of years, Isaac […]
The Soviet Union’s space program was years ahead of the USA’s. So how did they lose the space race? Here in the United States and all across the world, humanity is […]
The Solar System’s outermost, undisputed planet wasn’t discovered until the 19th century. Here’s how you can easily find it yourself this December. There’s no greater scientific thrill than discovering something […]
Brent Gleeson is a business consultant, author, and former Navy SEAL. In that last role, he’s learned about the importance of resiliency when working through challenges. He’s not just talking […]
The first in a three-part series on the history of research on the origin of life.
Some of the meteorites that strike our planet originate from our red neighbor, Mars. Here’s how we know. As the planets orbit the Sun, well-separated from one another, we tend to […]
Archeologists had been doubtful since no such ship had ever been found.
Cultural psychologist Michele Gelfand says that our attitudes toward rules have a lot to do with who we are and with the type of environment we find most comfortable. She’s […]
It’s likely one of the biggest data breaches in corporate history.
The Oxfam report prompted Anand Giridharadas to tweet: “Don’t be Pinkered into everything’s-getting-better complacency.”
Business, on every level, is becoming more multi-cultural. Whether it’s embracing diversity internally, expanding to multiple sites around the world, or entering distant markets such as China, never has it […]
The downsides of drug abuse are so clear that one would imagine smarter folks would stay away from them. The research suggests otherwise.
100+ years ago, General Relativity came along, and Einstein gave the Universe a cosmological constant. Here’s why that was a mistake. Back in the 17th century, Isaac Newton put forth the […]
In 2008, Elon Musk explained which of history’s tech geniuses was his role model.
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The latest advances in technology have led to revolutionary changes in almost all parts of modern life. The rise of the internet, in particular, has enabled an uncountable number of […]
It’s a strange situation. In many American workplaces, it’s the sexual predators we protect, not their victims, according to journalist and author Gretchen Carlson. Since her landmark 2016 lawsuit against Fox […]
5-HTP could help both constipation and depression, but dosage matters.
Carl Sagan—who first coined the term—was tempted to call them “star-tar.”
The Canadian professor has been on the Joe Rogan Experience six times. There’s a lot of material to discuss.
It’s the ultimate way to go… and yet, it still isn’t what you’d expect. There are many terrifying ways that the Universe can destroy something. In space, if you tried to […]