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For consumers of festive beverages, the news is bad: this holiday season, Guinness may not be on tap and glass for bottling wine is scarce. Climate disasters, like British Columbia’s floods, have further weakened already […]
Progress got derailed somewhere between indoor plumbing and the flying car. Why?
Science and the humanities have been antagonistic for too long. Many of the big questions of our time require them to work closer than ever.
Scientists at the San Diego Zoo are on a mission to resurrect the extinct northern white rhino.
How do these little beasties detect light anyway?
For relatives who live far apart, holiday rituals may be the glue that holds the family together.
Two mounds of rice and a tiny flag in a sea of curry is enough to re-heat an old territorial conflict.
About the project The goal of driving more progress across the world—scientifically, politically, economically, socially, etc—is one shared by many. And yet, debates about the best way to maximize progress […]
Millions of Americans are quitting their jobs, but even if you can’t join the Great Resignation, you can still pursue a do-over moment.
Although equal parts Hollywood blockbuster and Putinist propaganda, “Trotsky” still manages to capture the good, the bad, and the ugly of Russia’s revolutionary past.
Behind the scenes, Hitler had at least three disastrous relationships, including a short-lived marriage.
If dark matter exists in a large halo in our galaxy, made up of particles, then it’s passing through us constantly. But how much?
Just as storylines make sense only when you have the context of the beginning and the end, listeners need to understand the impetus for why the album was even made.
A revolution of the mind must occur in order for humanity to succeed on a finite planet.
Dust sticking to things on the moon is a serious problem researchers are trying to solve.
Isn’t more sleep always better?
Over time, the Universe becomes less dominated by dark matter and more dominated by dark energy. Is one transforming into the other?
The risk of dying basically flattens after age 110.
What started as a viral case of public shaming has morphed into a dark story involving internet sleuths, a criminal network, and the suspicious death of a 62-year-old man in St. Louis.
Surface deformation or other signs of an impending explosion may not occur. Instead, supervolcanic eruptions can be much more insidious.
If you want to understand the Universe, cosmologically, you just can’t do it without the Friedmann equation. With it, the cosmos is yours.
Did the Milky Way form by slowly accreting matter or by devouring its neighboring galaxies? At last, we’re uncovering our own history.
The Kalam cosmological argument asserts that everything that exists has a cause, and what caused the Universe? It’s got to be God.
For the fewer than 50 people with this blood type, finding a blood transfusion could be extremely difficult.
The book Buddha Takes the Mound delivers an engaging and sophisticated account of Buddhism’s worldview through the prism of baseball.
Let’s celebrate the progress, but put the cork back in the champagne bottle.
Noise causes stress. For our ancestors, it meant danger: thunder, animal roars, war cries, triggering a ‘fight or run’ reaction.
Starting just about now, leaves start changing color from north to south, high to low, light to dark.
A new study refutes some of the claims recently made about the value of napping.