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Journey to the West is rightly considered one of the most influential novels ever written, but the real reason for its success may be its charismatic poster-boy: The Monkey King.
Brands manufacture meaning through consensus; people must strive to create their own.
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Introducing the Deep Space Food Challenge.
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Solving difficult visual puzzles seems to help the brain “rewire” itself by forming new neural pathways.
Do they really need the human touch?
According to surveys, approximately half of artificial intelligence experts believe that general AI will emerge by 2060.
Thought expriments are great tools, but do they always do what we want them to?
Searching for dark matter, the XENON collaboration found absolutely nothing out of the ordinary. Here’s why that’s an extraordinary feat.
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No matter how controversial or politicized our world becomes, science remains humanity’s best tool for figuring out how things work.
The stars, planets, and many moons are extremely round. Why don’t they take other shapes?
On long-haul flights, some airlines show shipwrecks on their in-flight maps. The aim is to entertain; the result is often to horrify.
The first of many dodecahedrons was unearthed almost three centuries ago, and we still don’t know what they were for.
Finding out we’re not alone in the Universe would fundamentally change everything. Here’s how we could do it.
We once thought the Moon was completely airless, but it turns out it has an atmosphere, after all. Even wilder: It has a tail of its own.
The last 70 years have taken us farther than the previous 70,000. But can we accomplish more than creating a record saying, “We were here?”
Put two grapes close together in a microwave and you’ll get an electrifying result, all because of the physics of plasmas.
Researchers find an unusual property of a bacteria that can breathe in metal.
Scientists have found evidence of hot springs near sites where ancient hominids settled, long before the control of fire.