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A new study find a connection between having more testosterone and not liking classical, jazz, or avant-garde music.
Three questions for the designer of a video game in line with the times.
Archeologists find the largest frozen Scythian burial site ever found in Siberia.
Are we looking for life in all the wrong ways, like SETI with smoke signals? A little over 80 years ago, humanity first began broadcasting radio and television signals with enough […]
We talked to a scientist who studies the afterlife and near-death experiences.
People think that stereotypes are true but also that it is not acceptable to admit this and therefore say they are false. Moreover, they say this to themselves too, in inner speech.
A new law in Germany seeks to close the gender pay gap, but it could ultimately prove counterproductive.
To better understand our place in the world, check out these groundbreaking books.
If the bolide had hit just 30 seconds later, we’d be looking at a very different Earth.
Like any stereotype, there are some elements of truth in all of them, but they oversimplify reality and create a lot of roadblocks to healthy collaboration.
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency releases a dazzling map of the earth’s antineutrinos.
Get out of the way expensive facial creams and treatments.
Generating excitement and enthusiasm for a new learning program can be an enormous challenge for any organization. Very few working adults find “going back to school” to be an appealing […]
They’re less than a billion years old. And, thanks to ALMA, they might finally pave the way to understanding how galaxies form. How do galaxies like our Milky Way come to […]
Could these findings be used to boost creativity?
Does money, even when borrowed, make us happier – or does the state of owing money add to our dissatisfaction and stress?
Could the upcoming Winter Olympics stand as a turning point, or will it be more of the same?
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Magical thinking has always run deep in America, but in the last 30 years things have begun to escalate. "Nutty fringe ideas" are making their way into the mainstream.
Propofol does more than knock a patient out — it blocks neural connections.
Have you ever been curious about how curiosity works?