Space
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This Is Why Americans Are Irrationally Anxious About Terrorism
Many of terrorism’s most profound consequences are felt from a distance.
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Here’s What We’ll Do in Space by 2116
In a mere 60 years, we of Earth have gone from launching our first spacecraft, to exploring every planet and major moon in our solar system, to establishing an international, long-lived fleet of robotic spacecraft at the Moon and Mars. What will we do in the next 100 years? With such rapid expansion of capability, […]
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Why Our Universe Doesn’t Have a Birthday
Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . The main elements of the Big Bang model are “easily listed,” says Jim Peebles, the Albert Einstein Professor Emeritus of Science at Princeton. The model holds that the large-scale structure of the cosmos is expanding faster and faster and that, on average, […]
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Why the Teenage Brain Isn’t Built for Solitary Confinement
Johnny Perez was 16-years old when he was arrested for gun possession and admitted to Riker’s Island. Within months, he did his first round of solitary confinement: 60 days in a 60 square-foot cell. The punishment was for fighting to use the telephone. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . […]
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How a Mathematical Superstition Stultified Algebra for Over a Thousand Years
Like most people, my high-school training in mathematics involved next-to-no history, barely touching on the names of a few mathematicians, like Pythagoras, and their theorems. I graduated only vaguely aware that geometry came from ancient Greece and algebra came from the Babylonians. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . A […]
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How Where You Are or What You’re Doing Alters Your Sense of Time
maradon 333/Shutterstock Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . How we think of time can lead to some odd results. For example, imagine your co-worker says next Wednesday’s meeting has been moved forward two days. When is the meeting going to be held? Your response can be predicted by how […]