In Georgia, it's becoming less common to pronounce words like "prize" as "prahz."
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Life in the supremely vast cosmos is incredibly rare. We need a new vision for our living planet and for ourselves.
In many city-states, it was perfectly acceptable for older men to have sexual relationships with young boys.
Everything acts like a wave while it propagates, but behaves like a particle whenever it interacts. The origins of this duality go way back.
From Hogwarts to hashtags, kids' reading habits have changed drastically in recent decades — but data suggests cause for hope.
See the world through the eyes of a horse — or a cake pan.
The Big Bang's hot glow faded away after only a few million years, leaving the Universe dark until the first stars formed. Oh, the changes!
He is only out-sold by William Shakespeare and Lao Tzu.
She apparently learned some valuable business skills as a former prostitute.
Here’s how to appreciate them from a distance.
Science is for everyone, even those possessing strongly held beliefs that seem to conflict with the best available evidence.
From here on Earth, looking farther away in space means looking farther back in time. So what are distant Earth-watchers seeing right now?
"She understood me and I understood her. I loved that pigeon.”
For thousands of years, humanity had no idea how far away the stars were. In the 1600s, Newton, Huygens, and Hooke all claimed to get there.
The Industrial Revolution changed music forever, thanks to a combination of technological advances and clever entrepreneurs.
Compared to Earth, Mars is small, cold, dry, and lifeless. But 3.4 billion years ago, a killer asteroid caused a Martian megatsunami.
What began as public outcry against Iran’s so-called morality police has snowballed into a mass movement targeting the very essence of the Islamic republic.
The Universe is grand, awe-inspiring, and greater than we likely imagine. Even astrophysicists get anxious thinking about it, but we cope.
The Source Family, a radical 1970s utopian commune, still impacts what we eat today.
1859's Carrington event gave us a preview of how catastrophic the Sun could be for humanity. But it could get even worse than we imagined.
Such massive, early supermassive black holes have puzzled astronomers for decades. At last, we've finally figured out how they form.
As a form of civil disobedience, hacking can help make the world a better place.
As we gain new knowledge, our scientific picture of how the Universe works must evolve. This is a feature of the Big Bang, not a bug.
The same parts of the brain that help us navigate complex social interactions can also drive us to make wildly bad investments.
Every December, the Geminid meteor shower reaches its peak. Its 2021 show will be spectacular, but only if you do it right.
To war is human – and Neanderthals were very like us.
Mexico City, already progressive, takes more steps to protect its LGBT+ citizens.
Radical thinker Rutger Bregman paints a new, more beautiful portrait of humanity.
And what can it teach us about our Solar System’s earliest days? In many ways, astronomy is unique among the sciences. In every other field, you have the ability to design […]