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It sounds like something out of science fiction: In the late 1950s, the US Army carved a tiny “city” into the Greenland ice sheet, 800 miles from the North Pole. It had living facilities, and scientific labs, and working showers, all powered by one small nuclear reactor. The research base was called “Camp Century,” a Cold War scientific project that …

We’re talking capital-A Acting, baby! From Daniel Day-Lewis in ‘There Will Be Blood’ to Mark Wahlberg in ‘The Departed,’ we’re celebrating the best of the best of the past 25 years. How do your favorites stack up? We’re talking capital-A Acting, baby! From Daniel Day-Lewis in ‘There Will Be Blood’ to Mark Wahlberg in ‘The Departed,’ we’re celebrating the best …

Young, talented and determined. The NHL has plenty of young players who are making their marks on the game. NHL Network’s research department on Friday revealed its top 25 players born since 2000. Here is the list: 25. Matthew Knies, F, Toronto Maple Leafs The 22-year-old had a strong season with 58 points (29 goals, 29 assists) in 78 games, …

The plague — aka the Black Death, aka the Great Pestilence — is rarely contracted today, yet it recently infected a South Lake Tahoe resident. But before you put on your 17th century “air-purifying” beaked mask, let’s find out from the experts why this disease is still around and how dangerous it is now. Most people associate the term “plague” …

Sign up for Big Think on Substack The most surprising and impactful new stories delivered to your inbox every week, for free. Roughly 150 years ago, Harvard University’s William James became one of the first educators to offer a psychology course in the United States. Among other ideas, James put forth the notion of a “stream of consciousness” and encouraged …

We live in the greatest era of sports TV play-by-play voices. The ability to describe what we see in front of us, coupled with advances in technology that allow for deeper insight into a sport, has created an environment where viewers are better served than ever before by the people in the TV booth or courtside. The list of talented …

An astrophysicist has made an ambitious proposal for how humanity could probe the extreme physics of black holes — by sending a spaceship no bigger than a paperclip to our nearest one. The spacecraft, no heavier than a gram and propelled to a third of the speed of light by lasers on Earth, would gather information on a nearby space-time …

A man gave himself bromism, a psychiatric disorder that has not been common for many decades, after asking ChatGPT for advice and accidentally poisoning himself, according to a case study published this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine.  In this case, a man showed up in an ER experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations and claiming that his neighbor was …

Caltech scientists have developed a method to create metallic objects of a precisely specified shape and composition, giving them unprecedented control of the metallic mixtures, or alloys, they create and the enhanced properties those creations will display. Want a stent that is biocompatible and mechanically robust? How about strong but lightweight satellite components that can operate in space for decades? …

Katie Ledecky’s historic reign continues after she beat rival Summer McIntosh in one of the biggest non-Olympic swimming races during Saturday’s women’s 800-meter freestyle at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore. [Join or create a Yahoo Fantasy Football league for the 2025 NFL season] The race, dubbed “the biggest race of this century, men or women, from outside of the …