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The Universe is 13.8 billion years old, going back to the hot Big Bang. But was that truly the beginning, and is that truly its age?
Did traditional Chinese thought pave the way for the philosophy of Maoism?
Singularities frustrate our understanding. But behind every singularity in physics hides a secret door to a new understanding of the world.
After decades of development, whether NASA’s Webb succeeds or fails all comes down to five critical milestones that are only days away.
Smashing things together at unprecedented energies sounds dangerous. But it’s nothing the Universe hasn’t already seen, and survived.
Max Planck Institute scientists crash into a computing wall there seems to be no way around.
There is much more to the Kama Sutra than just sex. It’s a guide to anyone wanting more pleasure in life, however they take it.
How we handle grief largely depends on our worldview. Here is how three famous philosophers handled the certainty of grief and despair.
Remembering Frank Drake, who transformed the search for alien life & extraterrestrial intelligence into a full-fledged scientific endeavor.
In scientific theories, the Multiverse appears as a bug rather than as a feature. We should squash it.
Is “The Garden of Earthly Delights” by Hieronymus Bosch a condemnation of sin or a celebration of hedonism? Art historians still aren’t sure.
During the industrial era the cost of artificial light fell off a cliff — and the road to illumination was paved with ingenuity and slaughter.
There are pros and cons to sending interstellar messages to aliens that may or may not exist.
There’s a speed limit to the Universe: the speed of light in a vacuum. Want to beat the speed of light? Try going through a medium!
It might seem like science and faith are at war, but the two have a historical synergy that extends back in time for centuries.
Due to deteriorating health, all Beethoven left behind for his final symphony were some musical sketches.
Has the “age of psychopharmacology” shrunk society’s sense of responsibility for mental health?
Preventing scurvy is not just a problem in the Antarctic.
Ancient corridors below the French capital have served as its ossuary, playground, brewery, and perhaps soon, air conditioning.
The World Air Quality Index shows how clean your city’s air is, in real time.
Small spiders use their silk threads to passively fly, a process called ballooning. Learning how could help atmospheric scientists.
Are you getting a full 8 hours?
From the Big Bang to dark energy, knowledge of the cosmos has sped up in the past century — but big questions linger.
Studio Ghibli movies celebrate the natural world using a very Japanese mixture of Shinto, Buddhist, and Daoist themes.
Gradualism rejects the idea of a “bright line” in the abortion debate.
Diplomacy is war by other means.
Willpower alone likely isn’t enough to replace a bad habit with a good one.
Back in the 1930s, Fritz Zwicky postulated the existence of dark matter. No one took it seriously until Vera Rubin’s work: 40 years later.
Where did the “seed” magnetic field come from in the first place?