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What if the barrier to a fulfilled life isn’t technology but culture?
In 2021, residents of the top America could expect to live 20.4 years longer than residents of the bottom America.
Should social media platforms have the right to decide what speech to allow online? Should the government?
The benefits of learning with guidance are clear — but the expert and the novice must have a shared understanding of the goal.
In 1957, humanity launched our first satellite; today’s number is nearly 10,000, with 500,000+ more planned. Space is no longer pristine.
College students once stood out from the pack on IQ tests. Today, they’re about average.
Don’t argue with science. Just do it.
Giambattista della Porta’s contributions to codebreaking changed the course of communication.
Fortune cookies emerged from one of America’s darkest moments.
“The Tao of the wise is to work without effort.”
A researcher explains a little-known niche within modern physics: animal collective behavior.
Today’s scary clowns are not a divergence from tradition, but a return to it.
After 70 years, “The Power of Positive Thinking” remains incredibly popular, even though its critics find the book to be mostly fluff.
For a time, Francis Fukuyama looked like a prophet.
For millennia, diamonds were the hardest known material, but they only rank at #7 on the current list. Can you guess which material is #1?
Society-changing ideas form through a three-stage process, argues author Michael Bhaskar.
Although many dinosaurs never left the ground, they still possessed the basic structural framework for flight.
Our Sun will continue to grow, becoming a red giant and then a planetary nebula. Here’s how large it will get.
Everybody wins, everybody loses, or something in between.
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, […]
With the rise of Big Data, methods used to study the movement of stars or atoms can now reveal the movement of people. This could have important implications for cities.
Societies aren’t just engines of prosperity.
There are only 3 populations of stars, but “generations” is a more complex question. When we look out at the stars in the Universe, we classify them into three different […]
Too little breathing room, tear gas, and insufficient masks are a recipe for disaster. Police are worsening all three. Across the nation and the world, people of all skin colors are […]
A generation ago, NASA launched their great observatories to explore the Universe. It’s time for round 2. Throughout the history of astronomy, every advance we’ve ever made has come about because […]
There are three factors all competing to determine the fate of the Earth, and the one that’s winning now won’t win in the end. If you could measure the average distance […]
How can we promote the creation of new neurons – and why is it so important?