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One possible vision of the distant future.
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Your brain is wired for trauma. And it can be hot-wired to forget it.
Does it have a deeper significance — or is it just a number?
Parents want the best for their kids, but resilience helps children better cope with life's unavoidable challenges.
There is one House member for every 761,169 people, which isn't exactly representative.
Studying neuroscience through art.
A long-maligned treatment outperforms the trendy one.
Some patients wait over 5 years for a liver transplant.
A technique called targeted memory reactivation could improve common treatments for nightmare disorder.
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Psychedelic medicines are surging in popularity. Here’s how they work.
In 1974, Stephen Hawking showed that even black holes don't live forever, but emit radiation and eventually evaporate. Here's how.
The “scientific Buddha” and the idea of Buddhist exceptionalism with regard to science are modern creations.
The value of art does not lie in the artwork itself but is instead determined by curators, collectors, critics, and other participants in the modern-day art market.
Million Stories
The future of American jobs isn't only services and tech.
With almost every shovel of sand shifted in Egypt, another artifact comes to light.
Fear creates distraction, and that can be a positive experience.
In 1995, Hubble peered at the Pillars of Creation, forever changing our view. Now in 2022, JWST completes the star-forming puzzle.
Organic molecules can be produced by living or non-living systems. But the recent findings are very intriguing.
“Block. It puts some writers down for months. It puts some writers down for life.”