Why power generated through nuclear fusion will be the future, but not the present, solution to humanity’s energy needs.
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Augustine’s theology came to define Christianity, but there was a rival theology.
“Once quantum mechanics is applied to the entire cosmos, it uncovers a three-thousand-year-old idea.”
Researchers are finding signs of multiple phases of sleep all over the animal kingdom. The ‘active’ sleep phases look very much like REM.
A conservator from the Rijksmuseum explains how they went about investigating whether the painting is a genuine Rembrandt.
Between 30% and 50% of the US population says they believe in ghosts.
Mesopotamian beer was not flavored with hops, and it was probably on the thick, porridgey side.
People around the world, mostly Generation Z, are obsessed with the look and feel of gothic, elitist universities. Why?
The brain is highly plastic — the more we do a particular action, the more we change its makeup. Money is a great motivator for habit-forming actions.
This collection of learning and development quotes serves as a reminder of the meaning and purpose behind this important work.
From hellishly hot planets to water worlds, some distant planets are like nothing in our Solar System.
Until recently, we were only able to view Venus’s surface with radar or by landing on the planet. It was believed that Venus’s surface was entirely obscured by clouds; NASA’s Parker Solar Probe proved otherwise.
Israel looks to deploy its “Iron Beam” air-defense system within the year.
Researchers in Singapore invented a novel device that may help the island nation illuminate its growing underground infrastructure.
Revolutionary techniques for understanding brain functions in animals could soon help us understand how emotions guide our lives.
With launch, deployment, calibration, and science operations about to commence, here are 10 facts that are absolutely true.
Anyone can have a bad day at work, but not everyone scores this high on narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism.
Hubble’s deepest views of space revealed fewer than 10% of the Universe’s galaxies. James Webb will change that forever.
In a major shift, psychologists now view an out-of-control compulsion to work as an addiction with its own set of risk factors and consequences.
Why human attempts to mechanize logic keep breaking down.
After cryptoassets, a wave of central bank digital currencies is set to revolutionize our ideas about what money is and how to manage it.
2023 will see the launch of new rockets, the return of OSIRIS-REx, and a mission to Jupiter that could help us find extraterrestrial life.
Based on data since 2000 alone, global warming is still occurring at a whopping 7-sigma significance. How hot will planet Earth get?
From astrobiology to geology, a Moon base could serve as a laboratory unlike anything on Earth.
How the search for alien life is taking place right here in our own Solar System. If you want to understand the origin of life in the Universe, you have three […]
The monsoon rains were not always so reliable.
Cold War meets Star Wars in this cut-away of a 1950 “rubber bubble,” the first line of defense against nuclear sneak attack.
Or is ‘new space’ created in between the gaps of the ‘old’ space? It’s been almost 100 years since humanity first reached a revolutionary conclusion about our Universe: space itself doesn’t […]
The ‘final parsec problem’ is still a mystery for astronomers. When it comes to black holes in the Universe, we know there are at least two major types. There are […]