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An interview with filmmaker Jason Sussberg about his new film about Stewart Brand and the importance of culture in achieving progress.
“Spanish Stonehenge” contains 526 giant stones, three circular burial sites, a quarry, and four necropolises.
Delaying or refusing vaccines for non-medical reasons is literally a killer choice. When it comes to issues at the intersection of science and society, there are all sorts of things that […]
Venus Life Finder could launch as early as 2023.
Your breathing rhythm influences a wide range of behaviors, cognition, and emotion.
Until recently, video games were accused of killing brain cells. Now, researchers are trying to understand how they help players get smarter.
Some microbes can withstand Earth’s most inhospitable corners, hinting that life may be able to survive similarly extreme conditions on other worlds.
Though gloomy and dense, Russian literature is hauntingly beautiful, offering a relentlessly persistent inquiry into the human experience.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Swiss Enlightenment philosopher who praised a simple life and inspired the worst of the French Revolution.
Drugs that stifle acute inflammation may prevent the body from healing properly.
When it comes to handling our emotions, we can’t afford to be none the WISER.
We confidently state that the Universe is known to be 13.8 billion years old, with an uncertainty of just 1%. Here’s how we know.
Since its observation discovery in the 1990s, dark energy has been one of science’s biggest mysteries. Could black holes be the cause?
The good news is that it can be countered with acne medication.
The pulse took just 35 hours to cover the whole world.
There are two fundamentally different ways of measuring the Universe’s expansion. They disagree. “Early dark energy” might save us.
The power of play: our forgotten lifehack.
The new agency wants to push the boundaries of science and technology.
For many, it was just a successful launch like any other. But for scientists around the globe, it was a victory few dared to imagine.
We live in a four-dimensional Universe, where matter and energy curve the fabric of spacetime. But time sure is different from space!
In ancient Greece, the Olympics were never solely about the athletes themselves.
A ten-minute visit from a therapy dog reduces emergency room patients’ pain and anxiety.
Compared to Earth, Mars is small, cold, dry, and lifeless. But 3.4 billion years ago, a killer asteroid caused a Martian megatsunami.
Successful romantic relationships require desire, but that desire doesn’t have to be sexual.
Battery-powered urban aircraft are well within the bounds of technological reality.
Any alien civilization that grows to span an entire planet would spark the same effects that we have. So, what do we do about it?
A forensics expert explains what’s involved with documenting human rights violations during conflicts, from Afghanistan to Ukraine.
Scientists watch as mice mouse around an onscreen maze.