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On May 4, 1970, the National Guard shot and killed four students during an anti-war protest. The massacre went on to change American culture forever.

Way back in 1965, the soon-to-be founder of Intel, Gordon Moore, published a paper predicting that the number of transistors that could fit on a computer chip would double every […]

Professional bodybuilders say the amount of muscle Jake Gyllenhaal gained in six months is impossible without the use of performance enhancing drugs.

A terrific story about the physical threat of a major earthquake in the Pacific Northwest fails to explain why people don’t seem alarmed. That lack of alarm puts the public at risk as much as the shaking Earth itself, and should be part of the story.

Science and all of society benefit from an informed and knowledgeable public, yet not enough academics are recognized by scientific bodies for their contributions to popular writing.

When seeking intellectual stimulation on the Internet, TED can be regarded as one of those special “signals within the noise”. The site releases one talk a day, helping to create […]

Confronting your “absolute stupidity” is a sign you’re on course to learning something new and wonderful.

How black and white is your thinking?

“The problem with conspiracy theories is they’re not just telling you a story, they’re telling you a really good story. There’s a hidden cabal behind everything that’s happening, there’s a secret pattern that you just have to be smart enough to detect.”

Some go gently into the night. Others die less prettily in freak accidents or deadly invasions, or after a showy display.

As creatures and machines meld together in increasingly advanced forms, ethicists are starting to take note.

Biological evolution in humans has slowed. Can AI, culture wars, and modern tech explain why?

In “Moral Ambition,” Dutch historian Rutger Bregman argues that all would benefit from a collective redefinition of success.

The number of planets that could support life may be far greater than previously thought, a recent discovery suggests.

“Values emphasizing tolerance and self-expression have diverged most sharply, especially between high-income Western countries and the rest of the world.”

A small Ohio town tried to escape America’s addiction to rectangular grids. It didn’t last long.

Scientists don’t understand why the correlation exists.

How Stacy Madison — founder of Stacy’s Pita Chips and BeBOLD Foods — discovered that reinvention is not a one-off deal but an ongoing process.

Will you die when your body dies?

Still, the author’s main argument wasn’t totally discredited.

More CPAs are retiring than are joining the field. What’s going on? Forensic accountant Kelly Richmond Pope explains.

LK-99, almost certainly, isn’t a room-temperature superconductor. The underlying physics of the phenomenon helps us understand why.

His grandfather, a member of Oppenheimer’s atomic bomb team, foresaw the potential of nuclear energy to power cities — not destroy them.

Those white, marble statues you see in museums all over the world were originally painted with bright colors.

Science fiction met nuclear fission when Hungarian physicist Leó Szilárd pondered the explosive potential of nuclear energy.

Fear of technology is not new. But we misunderstand its origin. In reality, we don’t fear technology but each other.

For decades, theorists have been cooking up “theories of everything” to explain our Universe. Are all of them completely off-track?

Climate and ecological changes, as well as disruptions to the food chain, were already killing off the dinosaurs.

When we don’t find ways to relieve chronic stress, personal burnout is the likely consequence.

Pessimism sounds smart. Optimism sounds dumb. Don’t fall for it, says Wired’s Kevin Kelly.