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Today, artificial intelligence helps doctors diagnose patients, pilots fly commercial aircraft, and city planners predict traffic.  But no matter wha…

In 1948, Spanish ophthalmologist Jose Ignacio Barraquer Moner was fed up with glasses. He wanted a solution for blurry vision that fixed the eye itse…

How fast are you moving right now? That seems like an easy question. The first tempting answer is, "I'm not moving." Upon further refle…

"Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K. He knew he had done nothing wrong, but one morning, he was arrested."  Thus begins &quo…

On the edge of the vast Sahara desert, citizens snuck out of the city of Timbuktu and took to the wilderness. They buried chests in the desert sand, …

" I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't  have to wait until oil and coal run out before …

Hey y'all, Merry Christmas. Today we are going to be talking about the past. But not like history, in fact, we will be talking about what we call…

This post is going to hurt. There's a study about different colors and how some cause headaches: these colors are too dangerous to see continuous…

A few days ago, somebody asked me this question: "Has an end of a rainbow ever been found?" Now, at first I was like, the end of a rainbow?…

Today we're going to get close, like really close. In fact, I want to answer the question what's the closest we can get to other objects and …

On July 26, 1943, Los Angeles was blanketed by a thick gas that stung people's eyes and blocked out the Sun. Panicked residents believed their ci…

Socrates, one of the founding fathers of Western philosophical thought, was on trial. Many Athenians believed he was a dangerous enemy of the state, …

Your favourite cricketer closes in for a victorious win. The crowd holds its breath, and, at the crucial moment, he misses the shot. That competitor …

The year was 1776. In Bavaria, new ideals of rationalism, religious freedom, and universal human rights competed with the Catholic church’s heavy inf…

Did you know that the human eye can differentiate 10 million different colors? But what color is a mirror? You might say "silver," because …

In the late 17th century, a medical student named Johannes Hofer noticed a strange illness affecting Swiss mercenaries serving abroad. Its symptoms, …

Cigarettes aren’t good for us. That’s hardly news -- we’ve known about the dangers of smoking for decades. But how exactly do cigarettes harm us?  Le…