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We all have a sense of space and time, but evolution has not given us an intuition about just how vast they are compared to our direct experience.

Young musicians of the Banda Simfònica d'Algemesí light up a public square with a flash mob performance of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture on September 3, 2016.

Seth Meyers takes a closer look at President-Elect Donald Trump's foreign business ties, and the conflicts of interests they pose, and possible violations of the Constitution.

Arctic sea ice has not only been shrinking in surface area, it’s become younger and thinner. In this NASA animation, the ice cover almost looks gelatinous as it pulses through the seasons.

Springsteen: 'I don't know if a lot of people feel if this song is true any more, and I'm not sure that it is, but I know that it ought to be.'

Bernie affirms his optimism, and urges citizens to become more deeply involved in the political process.

A vivid arc of life on Rikers as told by the people who experienced it — from the trauma of entry, the conflicts with other inmates and corrections officers, the stabbings and beatings, and the torture of solitary confinement to the psychological challenges of returning to the outside world

How did we get to this point? And what do we do now?

Three infamous incidents of violence reenacted with the racial roles reversed. 

Sen. Elizabeth Warren at the AFL-CIO tears the mask from Donald Trump program for oligarchy and pledges, "We will stand up to bigotry, no compromises ever on this question."