Earth may have had a Saturn-like ring over 400 million years ago, scientists say
Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature ...
Selfies have changed our perception of what we look like. Here’s why.
Selfies are everywhere, but they change the way we perceive our own faces. There are a few reasons that happens.
10 respected artists who became a joke
Anyone can try to catch the ear of the public, but these artists ended up trading in their integrity to become a punchline.
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Arshiya Pant | All politics is local; let’s start acting like it
Columnist Arshiya Pant discusses the importance of participating in local politics amidst the dominance of national ...
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Why does everything look flat even though the Earth is round?
Even from space, you wouldn’t detect something important about Earth’s shape: It’s not perfectly round. It’s actually a ...
Archaeologists Discover Mysterious 12,000-Year-Old Stones That Could Be the World’s Oldest Wheel Technology
Early human cultures likely used stones as spindle whorls to spin fibers into yarn. A collection of perforated pebbles discovered at an archaeological site in Israel may be spindle whorls, marking a ...
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Malka Older: In these fraught times, the press must continue, and intensify, its role of bearing witness
In fact, many things are broken, from the public education system to the ... and slur or slur-adjacent language that have ...
The rise of podcasts
Podcasts have become our best friends, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic. Whether you are cooking, sketching or going ...
12,000-Year-Old Spindles Hint at Humanity’s First Steps Toward the Wheel
Over 100 perforated pebbles from a site near the Sea of Galilee showcase an early instance of the tech that reshaped humanity ...
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Curious Kids: Why does everything look flat even though the Earth is round?
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...
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Where rare star-shaped sand can be found on Planet Earth
It's incredibly rare but there are a handful of beaches on Planet Earth where star-shaped sand can be found ... Japanese folklore has a rather different take on things. The story goes that the ...
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These Mysterious 12,000-Year-Old Pebbles May Be Early Evidence of Wheel-Like Tools, Archaeologists Say
Researchers in Israel suggest the roughly donut-shaped artifacts could be spindle whorls, representing one of the oldest ...