About 150 million years ago, a long-necked sauropod came down with a respiratory infection. The rest is history…or is it?
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In logic, ‘reductio ad absurdum’ shows how flawed arguments fall apart. Our absurd Universe, however, often defies our intuitive reasoning.
Yoga is more than just standing on your head. It’s about uniting with the divine.
In general relativity, white holes are just as mathematically plausible as black holes. Black holes are real; what about white holes?
A new book by historian and author Paul Strathern argues that the Northern European Renaissance has long been overlooked.
The rewards price to get a free cup of hot coffee at Starbucks is going up.
Thanks to a couple of rovers, we know Mars was once blue.
Russia has spent years exploring the viability of building a self-contained internet. It could soon become reality.
Besides offering an incredibly cool way to get stuff into space, SpinLaunch promises to reduce the cost of a launch by 20-fold.
Leftover Cold War-era bunkers are still kept in a state of readiness to protect the population from nuclear war.
Because the milk was thin and had an unnatural, bluish tint, vendors stirred in additives such as chalk, flour, eggs, and Plaster-of-Paris.
Many beloved fantasy adventures take place in worlds that bear a striking resemblance to our own.
Without modularization, many epic projects simply would be impossible.
We can’t edit tweets, but we can edit our own DNA.
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A newly discovered “ultrahot Jupiter” has the shortest orbit of any known gas giant.
If the metaverse is money, then companies will certainly want to play, too.
Are anti-workers the lazy children of privilege or the brave vanguard of a utopic upheaval?
65 million years ago, an asteroid strike caused the 5th great mass extinction. Could we save Earth, today, from a similar event?
Named M51-ULS-1b, it’s certainly a curious astronomical event. But the evidence is far too weak to conclude “planet.”
Although many dinosaurs never left the ground, they still possessed the basic structural framework for flight.
These dissolvable pills aren’t meant to be swallowed, though.
Not even Einstein immediately knew the power of the equations he gave us.
It’s simple to make, easy to use, and should work against any variant.
Hackers are in an arms race with cyber defenders. Will AI tip the balance?
Out of sight, but not out of mind.
How can you “touch the Sun” if you’ve always been inside the solar corona, yet will never reach the Sun’s photosphere?
Immune booster or pure torture?
Your brain is remarkably good at mapping out physical spaces — even if it’s an imaginary space like Hogwarts. But how does the brain do it?
Research consistently points to a set of leadership skills that are high-impact, difficult to develop, and not easily replicated by technology.