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There are 38 kinds of secrets. The average person has 13 at any given moment. Michael Slepian explains how that can affect your health.
More than any other nation, Japan tends to feel comfortable with the idea of humanoid robots entering the home.
Many countries just ship their plastic waste overseas.
Like his "Mona Lisa," Leonardo da Vinci's "Lady with an Ermine" depicts a woman in a way that flouted the conventions of its time.
Forget about Tinkerbell.
Oxytocin can boost heart cells' ability to regenerate.
Something doesn't add up.
The media is deliberately pushing your buttons.
Quantum entanglement may remain spooky, but it has a very practical side.
4mins
“Conflict is useful. The question is how do you deal with conflict effectively.”
Many suspicious deaths of both humans and pets have been solved with the help of insects.
Practically all of the matter we see and interact with is made of atoms, which are mostly empty space. Then why is reality so... solid?
The DART mission tested whether it's possible to deflect an asteroid by crashing something into it.
"Even with my training, I still got insights from the book’s descriptions. That’s how good Carroll is at explaining physics."
More than half of Americans feel anxious over their financial situation.
Million Stories
From Aristotle's lazy cosmology to Immanuel Kant's "scientific" racism, great minds are not immune to very bad ideas.
Are you unhappy with how various events in your life turned out? Perhaps, in a parallel Universe, things worked out very differently.
Urban legends help personify the anxieties that arise from living in a modern city.
How much can something change and still be the same thing?