Imagine you’re a copper miner in southeastern Europe in the year 3900 B.C.E. Day after day you haul copper ore...
Despite the profound human, social and economic costs of alcohol abuse, existing treatments have failed to provide meaningful relief. Excessive...
About 66 million years ago – perhaps on a downright unlucky day in May – an asteroid smashed into our...
About a century ago, scientists were struggling to reconcile what seemed a contradiction in Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity....
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Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to...
Imagine finding out your friends hosted a dinner party and didn’t invite you, or that you were passed over for...
The first time Donald Trump was president, the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency developed a regulation known as...
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President Donald Trump’s idea of a “Golden Dome” missile defense system carries a range of potential strategic dangers for the...
Have you been hearing about the dire wolf lately? Maybe you saw a massive white wolf on the cover of...
MIT physicists have demonstrated a new form of magnetism that could one day be harnessed to build faster, denser, and...
