Ice sticks to fingers because the warmth of the skin melts a thin layer of ice, which instantly refreezes, creating a strong ...

Rubbing a balloon on hair causes static electricity. Electrons transfer, giving the balloon a negative charge and the hair a ...

Screaming into the void has roots in “Electra,” which has a lot to teach us about the thrill — and limits — of raised voices.

“W hen shall we hear the joyfull sound … that slavery is no more?” So asked Jupiter Hammon, an enslaved man whose life in New ...

Heretic, debater, wife-snatcher, subject of a posthumous cult: Pico della Mirandola certainly had a wild career. In this ...

November 14, 2025 – “With her pen, Antonius rebuilds villages and cities, replants crops, observes the weather, curates ...

A few years ago, I began to lose faith in my normal trade, journalism, with its reliance on facts. Sophisticates argue ...

In October 2024, a French court of Assizes sentenced Dr. Eugène Rwamucyo, a Rwandan medical doctor and long-time fugitive from justice, to 27 years in prison for complicity in genocide, complicity in ...

While for many people AI translates to chatbots, thanks to the accessibility and popularity of generative AI tools like ...

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In Trump’s first term, one of his Cabinet members, the Labor Secretary Alex Acosta, had to resign after questions surfaced ...