Stephen Hawking’s Breakthrough Listen project has detected mysterious signals that could be coming from intelligent alien life. Astronomers working to identify alien civilizations picked up 15 repeated fast radio bursts (FRBs) from a dwarf galaxy 3 billion light years away from Earth. It’s unclear if the signals, observed over a 30-minute period, emanate from black […]
It has been just over a year since Georgia MacBeath died, when life support was turned off at the hospital where she was taken. Georgia had been found unconscious in the garage of her home in Rotorua in New Zealand’s North Island. A priest and a doctor had been cycling past when they noticed something […]
A couple of years ago, Moschka Mohammadi was unable to read or write. Now, at 11, the young Afghan refugee is fluent in German, seamlessly translating between German and Dari with her parents at their dinner table as she arranges a visit to the orthodontist and the delivery of a new bed for her two […]
Average Americans have never much liked eggheads. That’s not a bad thing in itself: Americans are a skeptical but level-headed people—or were until recently—whose common sense and ingenuity allowed their nation to achieve great heights in science, diplomacy and the arts, while never displacing the ordinary voter as the deciding voice in affairs of state. […]
Both Republicans and Democrats are facing dramatic long-term realignments in the religious composition of their base, and it will be a challenge for the parties to weather this shift gracefully. Glance at the data from a new report from the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and you’ll see why doubling down on white identity politics […]