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New NASA research hints that Ceres — the closest dwarf planet to Earth — may have once had an ancient “power source” that could have sparked the evolution of extraterrestrial life-forms in the tiny world’s hidden ocean. Ceres is the […]

Australia is not known for picking fights. It prioritizes trade and has diplomatic relations with almost every country in the world—even the reclusive North Korea. But on Tuesday, it did something it hadn’t done since World War II: It expelled

Ahmad Gharabli/Getty Images/Getty The Israeli government recently approved a new settlement project in the occupied West Bank that would effectively cut it in half. The plan is illegal under international law and has been widely condemned. To get a sense

If you have spent time with an infant, you might recognize the scene: A child is wailing, inconsolable, and you, the parent, have to go to the bathroom. Or eat. Or attend to a pot that’s boiling over. But someone

The first scene of the new movie Splitsville starts with a hand job and ends with a car crash. Carey and Ashley (played by Kyle Marvin and Adria Arjona, respectively), who have been married for a little more than a

During their final meeting of the spring 2024 semester, after an academic year marked by controversies, infighting, and the defenestration of the university president, Harvard’s faculty burst out laughing. As was tradition, the then-dean of Harvard College, Rakesh Khurana, had

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts When President Donald Trump sent federal troops into Washington, D.C., earlier this month, it was, as Atlantic staff writer Quinta Jurecic put it, “the behavior of a

Last week, a woman named Nan Prince met me in the lobby of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, in Jackson, and walked me to an elevator. We rode down to the basement and she used her keypad access to open

Scientists in China have unveiled a supercomputer built on brain-like architecture — specifically, that of a monkey. Called Darwin Monkey or “Wukong”, the system features over 2 billion artificial neurons and more than 100 billion synapses, putting it roughly on