Traveling interstellar distances in human lifetimes is an amazing dream, but it won’t ever be achieved like this. For centuries, ever since we realized that every star we can see in […]
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Say “I still love you, but I’m furious” with the adorable, contemptuous Japanese concept of the “Revenge Lunchbox” (Shikaeshi Bento). “If you prick us do we not bleed? If you […]
How a funny idea to ship your enemies glitter turned into an empire. “There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of […]
“If you draw something, I will add to it.” The red pen never felt so good. “Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the […]
The dichotomy between strict constructionists and those who advocate a living; Constitution is a false one, says Yoshino.
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Though a single measurement is not enough to definitively decide the debate, this is a major win for dark matter proponents.
For years and over three separate experiments, "lepton universality" appeared to violate the Standard Model. LHCb at last proved otherwise.
Is the dumpster in the alley worthy of a poem?
When you don't have enough clues to bring your detective story to a close, you should expect that your educated guesses will all be wrong.
Bring not a bagpipe to a man in trouble.
Turning off a gene called “Myc” has a surprising effect in male fruit flies: They start courting other males.
Unlike other world rulers, Genghis Khan was laid to rest not inside an elaborate mausoleum but an unmarked grave somewhere in Mongolia. Maybe.
"The Soul of a New Machine" provides a rare level of insight into the minds and decisions of humanity's greatest thinkers.
The engineer working on Google's AI, called LaMDA, suffers from what we could call Michelangelo Syndrome. Scientists must beware hubris.
Researchers speculate the famous monument was one of the world’s first solar calendars, possibly inspired by trade with ancient Egyptians.
Get stronger in only three seconds per day? New research shows that it is possible.
Letting nature's expert engineers lead the way.
The stone camel sculptures, seven in total and originally uncovered back in 2018, far predate more famous monuments.
When Tal Golesworthy was told he was at risk of his aorta bursting, he wasn’t impressed with the surgery on offer – so he came up with his own idea.
Some neurology experiments — such as growing miniature human brains and reanimating the brains of dead pigs — are getting weird. It's time to discuss ethics.
With 5,000 square degrees of data, the Dark Energy Survey has something important to say. For as long as humans have been studying the Universe, we’ve yearned to know the answers […]
Is it groupthink? Or is there a deeper reason? In the early half of the 20th century, even after the discovery of the expanding Universe, physicists considered a wide variety of […]
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Waun Maun was an ancient Welsh stone circle that had an awful lot in common with Stonehenge.
There’s a lot to get rid of if we want to get only our Universe out of String Theory. A lot of people, when they learn about String Theory for the […]
A new study finds that some people just want privacy.
Vegans and vegetarians often have nutrient deficiencies and lower BMI, which can increase the risk of fractures.