The size of the U.S.-Mexico border wall proposed by the Trump administration seems shockingly ambitious when overlaid onto a map of Europe.
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Explore a legendary philosopher’s take on how society fails to prepare us for education and progress.
From the history of LSD to the origins of hip-hop, these 10 documentaries will educate and inspire.
Google’s homepage doodle for today, June 22, honors the memory of renowned science fiction author Octavia E. Butler. It would have been her 71st birthday.
MIT researchers find that 1–2 percent of Earth’s oldest mantle rocks are made from diamond. rnrn
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Finding New Year’s resolutions isn’t always easy. To help you out, we’ve gotten ideas from some of the greatest thinkers of all time.
On Sept. 2, a fire spread through Rio de Janeiro’s National Museum, devouring the historic building and most of its 20 million culturally and scientifically important items. We look at nine priceless artifacts and collections likely lost in the blaze.
Animal extinction is, after all, inevitable in the natural world — some have even called it the “engine of evolution”. So why should extinction matter to us?
Designed for a 90-day mission each, dust killed the overachieving Spirit and threatens to now kill Opportunity. But it didn’t have to be this way. In 2004, NASA launched two exploration […]
The Standard Model explains all the particles and interactions we see. But it can’t explain this. Of all the particles that we know of, the elusive neutrino is by far the […]
Steam-driven explosions at the summit of the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii could pose new threats to residents on the island.
These great thinkers remind us that taking an unpopular, bold stance might not be madness.
Jonathan Zittell Smith, the most influential scholar of religion of the past half-century, thought that religion “is created for the scholar’s analytic purposes.”
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 […]
Here on Earth, all the right conditions occurred for intelligent life to come about, but the nearest aliens, if they’re on another world, are light years away. But it doesn’t […]
With sustainable production, you could see houses, skyscrapers, and all kinds of things made of nanowood.
In only two weeks the anonymous philanthropist has given away $18 million.
Philosophers can be pretty eccentric. Here we list seven of the most out there. Yes, Diogenes is included.
The history of women in brewing goes back millennia where it was a respected profession. How did it help give rise to our modern image of witches?
We can go to deeper and deeper levels, finding more fundamental quantities as we do. But is there a truly fundamental quantity? What is the Universe, at a fundamental level, […]
MIT is working on something that will change how we use energy in dramatic ways.
A sea region has become the top place for maritime accidents, accounting for almost half the shipping disasters in the world.
Name one French coastline. Great. Now name another. Can’t? Here are all 36.
Half of all blindness in humans is due to macular degeneration. There looks to be a cure.
Starbucks is only the latest example of a very old systemic problem. Are these trainings effective?
It would be disappointing and surprising if Earth were the only template for habitability in the Universe.
Caltech engineers create a stable ring of plasma in the air, a feat thought impossible.
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.
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If a new ballot initiative receives enough signatures California could become a new haven for non-evidence based science.