A live-blog event of an incredible public lecture by a scientist on the inside of James Webb’s team. “The [James Webb] telescope is basically designed to answer the big questions in […]
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Author-musician James McBride claims that James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, holds the secret to America’s race-torn soul.
For this week’s installment of What Went Wrong? we bring you an interview with the Nobel Prize winning economist, Vernon Smith. Having studied bubbles inside and out, he has said […]
Henry James knew a bit about Americans abroad, and he put it like this: It’s a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against […]
Now that the Higgs has been discovered, the Standard Model is complete. But are there any other new particles? “The particle and the planet are subject to the same laws […]
The most important events in history have nothing to do with politics or wars.
The popular game has a backstory rife with segregation, inequality, intellectual theft, and outlandish political theories.
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Progress got derailed somewhere between indoor plumbing and the flying car. Why?
For decades, the Communist Party of China has relied on reeducation camps to reform “parasites” and persuade people to support the communist cause.
No. No no no. Just… no. The JWST has truly blown our scientific minds, but it’s a pure crackpot idea that the Big Bang is now disproven.
When you’re a genius, how do you make ends meet?
Studies show that feelings of ease and comfort in a given situation are tied to feelings of authenticity.
On forums, “true bitcoiners” didn’t talk about technology or crypto. Instead, they talked about trust and corruption.
Despite being the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury “only” reaches 800 °F at its hottest. Venus is always hotter, even at night.
For the fewer than 50 people with this blood type, finding a blood transfusion could be extremely difficult.
Famished, not famous: retrace Orwell’s hunger days, when he was one of the city’s legion of poor foreigners.
Humanoid robots are coming, and Ameca is designed to be the ideal platform to study human-robot interactions.
In 1966, Disney announced his intention to build Epcot, an acronym for “Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow.”
A 5,300-year-old mummy teaches us the global history of tattoos.
Which philosopher had the strongest arguments? David Hume, who raised some of the best challenges for science, ethics, and religion.
But the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope compels us to add, “so far.” Beginning with its 1990 launch, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope revolutionized our conception of the Universe. This photo of […]
Love him or hate, Karl Marx redefined geopolitics and shook up the world order.
Galaxies can have regions both hotter and colder than the background radiation of the Universe. When we talk about the depths of space, we get this picture in our heads […]
If you go young, blue, and massive, you top out at 50,000 K. That’s peanuts! Surprise! The biggest, most massive stars aren’t always the hottest. Although its neighbor, Messier 42, […]
Mass determines a star’s fate… except when it doesn’t. Supernova events are common, visually spectacular astronomical cataclysms. In 1987, a supernova just ~168,000 light-years away was observed in the Large Magellanic […]
The most massive nearby stars could be the seeds our supermassive black holes need. The problem with the Universe, as we see it today, is that we only get a snapshot […]
“Don’t tread on me” is a slogan of the deep sea, too.
A unique exoplanet without clouds or haze was found by astrophysicists from Harvard and Smithsonian.