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Once again, sugar-rich processed foods are shown to increase the likelihood of anxiety.
After the Big Bang, merging supermassive black holes are unparalleled. Here’s how we’ll find the first one. Last week, NASA’s Chandra X-ray observatory made history by announcing the most energetic explosive […]
More frequent sex has been linked with higher income rates, according to a 2013 study.
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These three tactics will help you focus on the task at hand.
Will identifying patient zero curb the spread, or just cause stigma?
"One way the internet distorts our picture of ourselves is by feeding the human tendency to overestimate our knowledge of how the world works," writes philosophy professor Michael Patrick Lynch.
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Stock markets may be plummeting, but that doesn't mean the spread of COVID-19 is hurting everyone's bottom line.
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A black hole punched a hole 15 Milky Ways across in a galaxy cluster’s gas, by far the largest ‘kaboom’ ever seen. The Universe, everywhere we look, is full of cataclysmic […]
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Striking a better work-life balance comes down to the numbers.
Loneliness may change how our body responds to stress.
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What good is diversity without inclusion?
Can the American government stop coronavirus spread? Its past actions speak volumes.
The university model needs to evolve.
Ever smell a durian fruit? Don't. Think of it as nature's stinky battery.
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Beware of the "fallacy of excessive expertise."
Not everything needs a medium to travel through. If we can overcome that assumption, we don’t need the aether at all. All throughout the Universe, different types of signals propagate. Some […]
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The Black Death skipped certain parts of Europe - and that could be a lesson for today's coronavirus epidemic
An algorithm produced every possible melody. Now its creators want to destroy songwriter copyrights.
A computer coder and a lawyer decide they have a right to speak for all the songwriters that ever lived, those who are alive today, and all those yet to be born.