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16/01/2023 - 14:21

But long-term data reveal a clear and alarming trend: In recent decades, American men have been faring increasingly worse in many areas of... →

05/01/2023 - 14:14

In November, BioNTech and Pfizer began their phase I trial of an mRNA vaccine designed to protect against both COVID-19 and influenza. The... →

30/12/2022 - 16:22

"You better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout, I'm telling you why, Santa Claus is coming to town." And don't I know it... →

25/12/2022 - 12:39

Pity the tiny band of lynx in the Polish half of Europe's most ancient forest. In June, their home, the Białowieża Forest, was cut in half... →

18/12/2022 - 13:58

Given what is often thought to be the “mathematicality” of the Jews, their collective capacity for numeracy, I suppose this makes me an... →

09/12/2022 - 13:52

Regular readers of Aeon+Psyche will be familiar with the dilemma that such a discovery poses: the powerful influence of this great mind,... →

04/12/2022 - 15:10

In 2005, the writer Simon Garfield published a book of extracts from the diaries of a selection of ordinary British citizens,... →

26/11/2022 - 14:40

It's January 2004 and Nasa is about to land on Mars, twice. The twin Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity are scheduled to arrive on opposite... →

21/11/2022 - 13:49

One of his proudest inventions was a homemade burglar alarm that alerted him whenever his parents entered his room. He used a microscope to... →

11/11/2022 - 13:14

“I think it was just the presumption that they were wives and mothers, and incredibly glamorous, and there was not much more to them,” said... →

06/11/2022 - 12:43

The extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH) has gained such popularity, in part, because it offers a fig leaf of scientific probity. Radiation... →

28/10/2022 - 13:18

In ‘The Worst Crime of All’, he justified why aggressive wars were the charter’s supreme crime: because all others – crimes against... →

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