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Tech

What We Know About the Baton Rouge Police Shooter

07.18.16

By Matt Taylor
Tech

The Milky Way Is Now Invisible to One Third of Humanity

06.10.16

By Emiko Jozuka
Tech

Black Hole Rain Is Like Normal Rain, Only Light-Years in Scale

06.08.16

By Michael Byrne
Tech

In Long-Lost Radio Interview, Carl Sagan Talks Aliens and Religion

03.30.16

By Sarah Emerson
Tech

The People Who Believe Electricity Rules the Universe

02.18.16

By Sarah Scoles
Travel

I Went on a ‘Sex and the City’ Tour of a Bizarro Version of New York City

09.30.15

By Allie Conti
How NASA Developed the Psychedelic Blueprints for the First Cities in Space

08.04.15

By Brian Merchant
Entertainment

[Exclusive] These Cosmic Landscape Photos Were Created Without a Camera

08.04.15

By Nathaniel Ainley
Pulse

‘No Bigger Question’: Yuri Milner Has Launched a Search for Aliens With Stephen Hawking at His Side

07.20.15

By Arthur White
Imagine Infinity in Mariko Mori’s New Sculpture Exhibition

03.24.15

By Sami Emory
Travel

Star Trails and Cellular X-Rays Usher in the Year of Light

01.23.15

By Sami Emory
Entertainment

Skip Traffic, Traverse Space and Time in a Roadside Mini-Universe

01.23.15

By Sami Emory

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Music

Remember When Rick Rubin Held a Surprisingly Star-Studded Fake Funeral Connected to His Pioneering Hip Hop Label?

From Reverend Al Sharpton officiating, to a New Orleans-style procession, to a repast at a bowling alley, no one holds a fake funeral like Rick Rubin.

05.19.26

By Lauren Boisvert
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Music

3 Psych-Rock Albums That Sound Just as Good Today as They Did in Their Prime

These wildly underrated psych-rock albums still hold up decades later.

05.19.26

By Lauren Boisvert
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Life

‘Uniboob’ Is an Actual Medical Condition. Here’s How It Happens.

Doctors call it “bread-loafing.” Make of that what you will.

05.19.26

By Ashley Fike
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Life

The 37% Rule Says This Is How Many People You Should Date Before Choosing One

Get enough experience to know what you actually want

05.19.26

By Ashley Fike
Photo: Francesco Carta fotografo / Getty Images

Life

If You Feel Guilty All the Time, You Probably Have a High IQ. Here’s Why.

Of course Freud is involved.

05.19.26

By Ashley Fike