Our views from the red planet’s surface are more spectacular than ever. Ever since the earliest spaceflight, humanity has reached for Mars. This photo composite shows Meande Ring, a river on […]
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Augmented reality (AR) contact lenses will project the digital world into our retinas, perhaps helping us navigate the metaverse.
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Who needs steroids when you have the placebo effect?
Going door-to-door on All Hallows Eve to beg for ‘soul cakes’?
Some of the most extreme weather in the Solar System just got stranger.
Fossilized footprints found at an excavation site in southwest New Mexico prove humans colonized the continent much earlier than previously thought.
Certain water beetles can escape from frogs after being consumed.
Participants with high levels of narcissism showed high levels of aggression, spreading gossip, bullying others, and more.
How can we understand mysterious planets like Jupiter? Use giant lasers!
Humans churn out about 30 gigatons (30,000,000,000 tons) of material every year.
One of the world’s most isolated island groups has just been made one of the world’s largest ocean reserves.
Although many dinosaurs never left the ground, they still possessed the basic structural framework for flight.
Memory errors may actually indicate a way in which the human cognitive system is “optimal” or “rational.”
The beauty of this magical medicine called silence is that it is available to all of us, even in cities, if only we care to listen.
The controversial theory about magic mushrooms and human evolution gets a much-needed update.
Dr. Kate Biberdorf explains why boiling water makes it safer and how water molecules are unusual and cool.
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Solving difficult visual puzzles seems to help the brain “rewire” itself by forming new neural pathways.
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The future of cities on the Moon, Mars and orbital habitats.
Brands manufacture meaning through consensus; people must strive to create their own.
Hunter-gatherers probably had more spare time than you.
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