Karl Marx’s famous line about religion is one of the most quoted and most misunderstood ideas in modern thought. This video breaks down what Marx actually meant by calling religion the “opium of the ...

The explosion tore the 747 apart in seconds, scattering debris across 845 square miles and killing 270 people on the ground and in the air. Investigators followed microscopic clues, shifting from Iran ...

This is an edition of the newsletter Pulling Weeds With Chris Black, in which the columnist weighs in on hot topics in culture. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Thursday. Substack, the ...

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The Manhattan-size interstellar object 3I/ATLAS exhibited signs of non-gravitational acceleration and appeared “bluer than the sun” as it passed our local star — which could be signs of an alien craft ...

The Victorian government has just introduced sweeping new planning laws that will substantially change who can object to new developments. The Planning Amendment (Better Decisions Made Faster) Bill ...

The vast majority of matter is dark – invisible until it is detected only through its gravitational effects. The newly discovered object could be a clump of dark matter, or it could also be a compact, ...

Ever since interstellar object 3I/ATLAS streaked into our solar system, astronomers have been scrambling to understand how this likely comet got here—and more importantly, perhaps, where it came from.

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS — which is zooming through our inner solar system — appears to be emitting its own light, according to Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb. The observation by Loeb, if ...

'Why Is Everyone So Mean to Me?' 8 Common Reasons—and What To Do About It, According to Psychologists originally appeared on Parade. It's pretty common to feel picked on every now and then. Sometimes, ...

One can select both object and string dtypes, so you select those columns in both older and newer pandas. One gotcha is that df.select_dtypes(include=[str]) is not allowed in pandas<=2.3 ("string ...

An oddly tilted object beyond Neptune moves in perfect sync, one orbit for every ten of Neptune’s, and scientists are intrigued. (Artist’s concept.) Credit: SciTechDaily.com Astronomers have ...