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On the morning of June 30, 1908, an explosion of more than 10 megatons occurred above the sparsely populated Siberian Taiga. What caused the so-called Tunguska event?
Maps can do more than show us places. They also can help determined people find others long lost, whether birth mothers or fugitive killers.
In a world where we assume people tell the truth, liars prosper. To stop them from exploiting others, here are three rules to catch a liar.
How many tins of beans make a stockpile, and when does a basement become a bunker?
Innovative thinking has done away with problems that long dogged the electric devices — and both scientists and environmentalists are excited about the possibilities.
Do the health risks outweigh the benefits?
Atomic clocks keep time accurately to within 1 second every 33 billion years. Nuclear clocks could blow them all away.
Wizbang innovations capture the public’s imagination, but thoughtful, incremental development is often more valuable to those in need.
Probability, lacking solid theoretical foundations and burdened with paradoxes, was jokingly called the “theory of misfortune.”
Disulfiram is an FDA-approved drug for the treatment of chronic alcoholism. It might also serve as anti-anxiety medication.
Left to their own devices, yeast cells will consume all available resources and poison themselves to death. Is humanity smarter than that?
All telescopes are fundamentally limited in what they can see. JWST reveals more distant galaxies than Hubble, but still can’t see them all.
Did fire change the development of the human brain?
George Washington’s biggest battle? With his dentures, made from hippo ivory and maybe slaves’ teeth
Washington first took the oath of office of the president of the United States with just one natural tooth remaining.
The first world that humans should inhabit beyond the Earth is the Moon, not Mars. Here’s why terraforming our lunar neighbor is so appealing.
When you wish upon a star, it probably makes a difference who you are.
We don’t understand why loneliness is bad for us if all we can say is that it hurts.
From Ramses II to Alexander the Great, these leaders helped shaped the world we know today.
The heart’s rhythms may play a larger role in shaping psychedelic experiences than previously thought.
The majority of the matter in our Universe isn’t made of any of the particles in the Standard Model. Could the axion save the day?
It’s like a little magnetic “nom, nom.”
Every time our Universe cools below a critical threshold, we fall out of equilibrium. That’s the best thing that ever happened to us.
Cold War meets Star Wars in this cut-away of a 1950 “rubber bubble,” the first line of defense against nuclear sneak attack.
Alibaba has played a key role in China’s meteoric economic rise.
Company culture is always evolving — sometimes for the worse.
Adolescents actively shape the transformation of religion and become the bearers of new religious patterns, worldviews, and values.
Ancient currents seemed to move in concert with a 2.4 million-year dance between the Red Planet and Earth.
Forty Starlink satellites were destroyed earlier this year in a geomagnetic storm.
Experiments cannot confirm what theory predicts about neutrinos. And particle physicists have no idea why.