The world’s highest mountain is also the world’s highest cemetery, with some bodies serving as creepy landmarks for today’s climbers.
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Two aspects of memory – fast updating and long lasting – are typically considered incompatible, yet the insects combined them.
Rather than sending serial killer art to auctions, it should be sent to abnormal psychologists for research.
The nature of civilizational threats has changed in a mere decade.
Icebergs aren’t just a threat to unsinkable ships. Their ability to cause underwater landslides poses a danger to coastal cities.
Kahneman was a world-changing psychologist — even with his lesser known ideas on life satisfaction.
In one experiment, the Viking landers added water to Martian soil samples. That might have been a very bad idea.
1859’s Carrington event gave us a preview of how catastrophic the Sun could be for humanity. But it could get even worse than we imagined.
Meet the masterful con-men who impressed the great and the good despite the astonishing fiction of their very existence.
Being a jerk gets you rich, promoted, and laid (if you’re a man). But there is a downside.
Even if you or I will never actually visit these distant worlds, we now know they exist. They should fill us with wonder.
At least one of Earth’s creatures is able to survive the vacuum of space.
There are two conceptions of free will: “straight” and “mixed.”
Saturn’s Iapetus, discovered way back in 1671, has three bizarre features that science still can’t fully explain.
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All life forms, anywhere in our Universe, are chemically connected yet completely unique.
“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
If you find yourself on one of these roads, it might be a while before you see another fellow traveler.
Organic molecules can be produced by living or non-living systems. But the recent findings are very intriguing.
These hard-to-finish books are still worth the effort.
Ancient humans crossed the Bering Strait land bridge from Asia into North America. But some of them went back.
Scuba divers often appear to be swimming through a calm and muffled universe. This couldn’t be farther from the truth.
A vertical map might better represent a world dominated by China and determined by shipping routes across the iceless Arctic.
The modern attention economy hijacks our ability to focus, but an ancient technique offers a means to get it back.
The eastern inner core located beneath Indonesia’s Banda Sea is growing faster than the western side beneath Brazil.
From corrupt czars to bloodthirsty Bolsheviks, Russia has had no shortage of bad leaders. But just how evil were they really?
Dante’s epic journey through hell and heaven reveal how the poet felt about his own country.
Over the past 50 years, 27 leap seconds have been added to our time.