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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 […]
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 platform is a digital Royal Society for today's greatest minds — and it could play an essential role in shaping the next civilization.
Long before the search for biosignatures, scientists imagined a cosmos teeming with intelligent life.
Recent controversies bode ill for the effort to detect life on other planets by analyzing the gases in their atmospheres.
Over-reliance on experts with quick fixes has taken us too far from reality — it’s time to dispel the fairy tales.
Meet the people paid to rouse the workers of industrial Britain.
The pseudoscience phrenology swept the popular imagination, and its practitioners made a mint preying on prejudices, gullibility, and misinformation.
"Time Warp" all the way back to 1800s spiritualism, magic performances, and spook shows.
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.