Interstellar dust shines in starlight light-years away from Earth. Green curtains of the auroras shimmer over a ghostly landscape in Iceland. A famous crater stands out in relief against the surface of the moon. These are just a few of…
Popularized in recent years by people like Gary Vaynerchuk, the “side hustle” has quickly become a preferred mentality for aspiring entrepreneurs to make additional money on the side. As Visual Capitlsist’s Jeff Desjardins explains, the gist of it is: by…
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Cassini, one of humanity’s best spacecraft, is officially dead at Saturn Saturn from Cassini. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute By Miriam Kramer2017-09-15 11:59:09 UTC No one can ever say that Cassini went quietly into its good night. At about 7:55 a.m.…
Cassini says goodbye with its final photos from Saturn Saturn in one of Cassini’s last views of the planet. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute By Miriam Kramer2017-09-15 02:06:54 UTC As with all good things, they must come to an end, and…
Follow thousands of super-bright kids for four and a half decades and you learn a thing or two about how to raise a high-achiever. One of the biggest takeaways: Even kids with genius-level IQs need teachers to help them reach…
Around the time Emily Esfahani Smith went off to college, she began searching for deeper meaning in her life. She would eventually find it in researching the topic itself, ultimately reaching graduate school to study the psychology of happiness. More…
Complex systems are all around us. By one definition, a complex system is any system that features a large number of interacting components (agents, processes, etc.) whose aggregate activity is nonlinear (not derivable from the summations of the activity of…
If you could magically teleport across the solar system, Saturn would be a great place to swing by on Friday morning. Hovering above the ringed planet’s surface, you’d see something amazing. Just after 6:32 a.m. EDT, a bus-size object will…
Who cares about an OLED and a notch when your phone can sip power from its surrounding, allowing you to make calls without ever having to charge your phone. This wild cellphone is part of a Google Faculty Research program…