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"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."
What is the meaning of infinity? How can the Higgs boson be explained in a way that is clear and accessible? The answers to these questions and many others can […]
The Washington Post’s media reporter has joined the ranks of those who fear the imminent demise of journalism. I don’t share this outlook. In fact, I see journalism–and science journalism […]
Over the weekend, I appeared on a stellar panel at the National Association of Science Writer’s meetings in Baltimore that featured Ralph Cicerone, President of the National Academy of Sciences, […]
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Above all, journalists should make us see through a different lens, Kurt Pitzer believes.
In "That Book Is Dangerous," author Adam Szetela examines the rise of the “Sensitivity Era” in publishing and how outrage campaigns try to control what books authors can write and readers can read.
In "Enough Is Enuf," Gabe Henry traces the history of simplified spelling movements and the lessons they teach us about language.
Cody Delistraty explores if laughter can help alleviate the physical symptoms of grief.
Are fava beans and chianti really the best pairing for human liver?
The pseudoscience phrenology swept the popular imagination, and its practitioners made a mint preying on prejudices, gullibility, and misinformation.
The Universe, although violent, is filled with creation events following destructive ones. 1850 light-years away, both types are unfolding.
These landscapes — of geographical differences in head shapes — have vanished from acceptable science (and cartography).
The Te’omim Cave in the Jerusalem Hills is filled with skulls and oil lamps — objects a new study says may have been used in dark rituals.
Hybrid animals emerge when two different species from the same family reproduce. For many years, the kunga’s lineage was just another genetic mystery.
Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works engineering division has devised many jaw-dropping aircraft. Here are some of the best — and one ship.
Researchers discovered something modern humans had never before seen—a flashy Neanderthal horn collection.
It was originally recorded in the 1970s by cognitive psychologists Harry McGurk and John MacDonald.
"All moments past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist."
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The American author said he attempted to bring scientific thinking to literary criticism, but received "very little gratitude for this."
What lies in store for humanity? Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku explains how different life will be for your descendants—and maybe your future self, if the timing works out.
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Michio Kaku predicts, among other things, how we'll build cities on Mars and why cancer will one day be like the common cold.
The A.I. system could improve the lives of commercially raised pigs.
The most feared sexually transmitted disease (STD) of the last half-millennium was usually named after foreigners, often the French.
Fittingly, the skull was found in the Rising Star cave of South Africa, itself located at a site known to UNESCO as the Cradle of Mankind.
An unprecedented number of new satellites threatens the night sky as we know it. Will we act in time to save it?
Yukio Mishima treated his life as if it were a story — one with a surprising and deadly final act.
Opponents of 19th-century American imperialism were not above body-shaming the personification of the U.S. government.
Think you can hide your feelings pretty easily?