The shift from steam to electricity was inevitable — but some foresaw it earlier than others.
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In a world of rising cynicism, a celebration of our capacity to create, adapt, and thrive.
It’s been 65 years since Richard Feynman saw “plenty of room” in the nano-world. Are we finally getting down there?
Research suggests that employees with criminal records are far less likely to quit their jobs, perhaps due to a greater sense of loyalty.
Experts believe they could cut the time it takes a rocket to reach Mars by up to 25%, shaving about two months off the trip.
Literature’s first utopia shows how far we’ve come.
Many planets will eventually be devoured by their parent star. For the first time, we caught a star in the act, eating its innermost planet!
In 1990, we only knew of the ones in our Solar System. Today, we know of thousands, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Thanks to the Coriolis force, hurricanes never cross the equator.
If everyone just showed up to their appointments, $150 billion of waste could be averted.
There is a strong case to be made that the China has moved too slowly to reverse the effects of its one-child policy.
The death of God didn’t strike Nietzsche as an entirely good thing. Without a God, the basic belief system of Western Europe was in jeopardy.
Years of shoddy research have overstated the risk.
To protect yourself, you need an antifungal rather than an amulet.
Two parts of our Universe that seem to be unavoidable are dark matter and dark energy. Could they really be two aspects of the same thing?
Scalars, vectors, and tensors come up all the time in physics. They’re more than mathematical structures. They help describe the Universe.
Benjamin Breen on his greatest revelations while writing about the birth of psychedelic science.
Cryo-electron tomography, or cryo-ET, is the future of cell research.
Real-time online learning is where our dated education system is heading.
Compared to Earth, Mars is small, cold, dry, and lifeless. But 3.4 billion years ago, a killer asteroid caused a Martian megatsunami.
The far side of the Moon is incredibly different from the Earth-facing side. 63 years later, we know why the Moon’s faces are not alike.
Philosopher Peter Singer argues it’s time to examine a morally dubious practice.
From here on Earth, looking farther away in space means looking farther back in time. So what are distant Earth-watchers seeing right now?
Cyberattacks are growing in number and sophistication.
“Jumping genes” exist in various forms, including as remnants of ancient retroviruses, and make up about 45% of the human genome.
Ethicist and doctor Simon Whitney argues that society’s overly cautious approach to medical research is blocking breakthroughs.
The “little red dots” were touted as being too massive, too early, for cosmology to explain. With new knowledge, everything adds up.
Huge shifts in the workforce demand real-world changes in management practices; “command-and-control” no longer cuts it.
Quantum uncertainty and wave-particle duality are big features of quantum physics. But without Pauli’s rule, our Universe wouldn’t exist.