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Reddit can reveal a lot, depending on how you interpret the data.

Be glad your name isn’t attached to any of these bad ideas.

What inspired the Mona Lisa, China’s Terracotta Warriors, and more?

We all know who Confucius was, but what did he teach?

It took more than 9 billion years for Earth to form: the only known planet housing life. But it could have happened much, much sooner. The cosmic story that unfolded following […]

We all love the art, but we often forget the difficulty of being an artist. Here are some of the most famous, greatest writers of all time who never could quite make a living doing it. 

The effect of this trend will be with us for decades to come, experts say.

Truth is, dinosaurs aren’t as distinct as you may think, but to find out why, we first have to consider how we got the term “dinosaur.”

Many of our greatest fears stem from uncertainty about the future, and technology has made the future very uncertain indeed.

It can be hard to understand why a person would be an atheist. Bertrand Russell is here to help.

We all want to help our children learn and a new study shows that encouraging curiosity might be the best way to do it.

What does science have to say about the biggest questions about existence of all? Find out on our new Starts With A Bang podcast. Ever wonder about the biggest questions that […]

Although there is much guesswork as to the future of artificial intelligence, today’s AI systems continue to be a boon for science.

Dylan McWilliams was bit by a shark in Hawaii less than a year after being bit by a bear in Colorado. What are the odds? There’s an old saying out there […]

Each year, lightning kills 24,000 people around the world. These maps show which regions get hit more than others.

As we’ve come to expect, conspiracy theorists and fringe Christian evangelicals are heralding the July 27 blood moon as a sign of the imminent apocalypse. But what is the blood moon prophecy, and why does it appeal to a certain type of believer?

People across eras, religions, and cultures have always been curious about a spiritual world that exists behind the curtain of death.

Religious literacy can help us to ‘disagree better.’

Research suggests that your name affects the level of success you’ll achieve in your career and love life, and even where you choose to live.

A new study shows that teenagers are increasingly experimenting with marijuana before beer or cigarettes. Is that a good thing?

Gazing upon the red, blood Moon during totality is only part of the wonders awaiting you. On July 27, 2018, the longest total lunar eclipse of the century took place. Totality […]

Somewhere out there, perhaps in another place and time, there’s a person who looks like your identical twin stranger — at least to an untrained observer.

The West has been doing well scientifically for a few hundred years now, but it took almost a thousand years for it to catch up to the Middle East. Here are ten of the biggest discoveries the Islamic world got first.

The highest paid athlete in history does not live in modern times. That person lived in Ancient Rome.

The Large Hadron Collider allowed us to complete the Standard Model. Even so, what we have is incomplete. Here’s what could come next. The Large Hadron Collider is the most powerful […]

Research with other species lends weight to these findings.

When we call something ugly, we say something about ourselves – and what we fear or dread.

Philosophers often get depicted like sages in ivory towers without a practical or human side. A gossip-filled book from the 3rd century can fix that.

Ingvar Kamprad may be the most influential aesthete in the history of interior design, thanks to the mass-produced and self-assembled furniture created by his company, Ikea.

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft taught us more than we ever imagined about Saturn. Could we do something similar for Uranus and Neptune? From where we are in the Solar System, looking out […]