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Ancient currents seemed to move in concert with a 2.4 million-year dance between the Red Planet and Earth.
Awe-inspiring moments can be found in our daily lives, and they have surprising benefits for our health and sense of well-being.
Rather than sending serial killer art to auctions, it should be sent to abnormal psychologists for research.
You can learn a lot about life through literature’s most unrespectable and heinous characters.
Worldwide, 15% of children are born out of wedlock, but the figure varies from less than 1% in places like China to 69% in Iceland.
The 2021 Quality of Government Index shows how much trust the citizens of Europe place in each other and in their elected politicians.
ChatGPT doesn’t understand physics, but it memorizes very well and puts in extra effort.
Following the advent of human space flight, NASA began naming missions after children of Zeus.
Engineers borrowed the maple tree’s “helicopter” to design tiny, flying microchips, which perform various tasks while in whirling free fall.
Some constants, like the speed of light, exist with no underlying explanation. How many “fundamental constants” does our Universe require?
We can’t always change our horrible bosses — but we can transform the ways we interact with them.
His $1 million ARC Prize competition is designed to put us on the right path.
“Uitwaaien” is a popular activity around Amsterdam—one believed to have important psychological benefits.
Who needs steroids when you have the placebo effect?
Giambattista della Porta’s contributions to codebreaking changed the course of communication.
Humans are good visual thinkers, too, but we tend to privilege verbal thinking.
An interview with Lisa Kaltenegger, the founding director of the Carl Sagan Institute, about the modern quest to answer an age-old question: “Are we alone in the cosmos?”
Galactic archaeology has uncovered a spectacular find: the Milky Way already existed more than 13 billion years ago.
In pre-War Cambridge, students had to ace an interview with Ludwig Wittgenstein to attend his lectures — Alan Turing passed that test, and went on to create one of his own.
Glimpse into the ancient Maya empire through the writing of its own inhabitants.
If you’ve ever struggled with the strong force, this explanation is a life-saver. If you ask someone to think about some physical phenomenon that’s responsible for any sort of force […]
Understanding “why” may be the key to unlocking an AI’s imagination.
There’s an enormous evolutionary advantage for flamingos to stand on one leg, but genetics doesn’t help. Only physics explains why.
If aliens are driven mostly by biological imperatives, humanity could be in big trouble if we ever meet technologically advanced beings.
“Politics is weird. It’s the only business in the world in which you take a really, really important position, and you give it to someone with no qualifications.” —Tony Blair
Why does the DMT experience feel so familiar to some people — even those who are trying the psychedelic for the first time?
The value of art does not lie in the artwork itself but is instead determined by curators, collectors, critics, and other participants in the modern-day art market.
Imagine going on a tour through the human circulatory system as a tiny cell. That is just one example of education in the metaverse.
There are billions of potentially inhabited planets in the Milky Way alone. Here’s how NASA will at last discover and measure them.