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China is investing a gargantuan amount of money in Africa, but it’s leaving many in the global community concerned as to why.

There’s a reason why all the world seems to be hiding within the borders of Maine.

The road to harmony often means getting your hands dirty.

In 2017, conflict was stronger between red and blue than it was between black and white.

Intelligent aliens, if they exist in the galaxy or the Universe, might be detectable from a variety of signals: electromagnetic, from planet modification, or because they’re spacefaring. But we haven’t […]

Why do some enter into such an irrational and potentially harmful state during sleep?

One of the night sky’s most famous sights isn’t what it appears to be. Perhaps the most famous sight of a dying star is the Ring Nebula, known since 1779. The […]

Getting your vote to where it matters can be harder and more corrupt than it should be. Could blockchain technology build a better system and rebuild people’s trust?

New insights into the role of water vapor may help researchers predict how the planet will respond to warming.

This September, Apple revealed its newest iPhone lineup. The largest option of the iPhone XS Max tops out at $1,499 — nearly two and a half times the price of […]

We often support ideas without knowing quite why. John Stuart Mill reminds us why capitalism can be great for us and why we should be wary of state power.

How do great people get so much done? If you’re Ben Franklin, you lay out a detailed schedule.

A new study says climate change could cause an additional 40,000 suicides in America and Canada by 2050.

NASA has found organic matter preserved in 3-billion-year-old mudstones at Gale crater on Mars. Is it just a matter of time before life is discovered on the red planet?

We need a public mature enough to recognize that policy decisions and actions are more relevant to leadership than professed beliefs.

For the first time, an object from outside our solar system is observed traveling through our neighborhood.

The ingredients for life are everywhere, but so far the only life we know of comes from Earth. Here’s how that might change. Ever since human beings first turned our eyes […]

Sure we know it would be bad, but what do all of these scary numbers really mean?

Millions of people will watch the 2018 FIFA World Cup this week on TVs and computers. But new technology suggests the next World Cup might be watched through 3D holograms.

We need a break, but the possibility of getting one seems unlikely.

Free market ideology uses democratic vocabulary as propaganda, obscuring a non-democratic reality.

It neutralized not only the tumor it was injected into but malignancies all over the body.

When two different techniques give two different results, either someone is wrong, or something incredible is happening. Imagine you were a scientist attempting to measure some property of the Universe. […]

Starbucks isn’t accepting bitcoin—yet.

Every country is unique—but only America is extraordinary

After widespread criticism of Facebook’s handling of election meddling, fake news and the Cambridge Analytica scandal, investors are growing increasingly frustrated at the company’s leadership.

The accelerated expansion of the Universe is one of the greatest puzzles today. Could this out-of-the-box idea explain it without dark energy? When it comes to our quest to understand the […]

The new approach to opiate addiction and overdose has been in development for 25 years.

The human brain is an incredible marvel of evolution. But what’s even more incredible is how this supercomputer in your head is able to occasionally make such dumb mistakes.

A machine learning algorithm has shown it can discover planets from weak signals overlooked in the Kepler spacecraft’s database.