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A massive solar project has just been completed, and its specs are impressive.
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This holiday season, ask the questions you don't know the answer to.
With so many charities relying on these donations to achieve their goals, how do we choose between them? How do we know how much impact our dollars actually have?
A NYT article says the Defense Department been tracking mystery aircraft.
Just like everything else in life, good health is all about timing.
In 2016 Americans spent $16.4 billion on cosmetic plastic surgery. What does that say about the health of our psyche?
Imagine reading by plant light, and glow-in-the-dark trees instead of street lamps. That's on the horizon thanks to these engineers.
Self-Directed Learning (SDL) empowers employees to control their own development and education. A well-executed SDL initiative can improve the speed at which employees gain new skills and increase engagement with […]
We’ve come so far since 2015; what do we know about dark matter now that we didn’t know then? Back in 2015, the dark matter situation was pretty straightforward: the large-scale […]
A once-impossible new technique creates fusion energy with powerful lasers and without radioactive fuel.
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History shows us why we can't trust centralized power. So what can we trust?
Cute things are usually vulnerable, fragile, and weak. But cuteness itself is mighty indeed.
Many participants smoked and drank, and enjoyed the benefits of health and longevity anyway.
Evolution has trained your mind to create in-groups and out-groups in a flash—but the lines are more flexible than you think.
A new study in mice shows that fasting increases BDNF, a protein that promotes the growth of neuronal connections.
How bloody was Australia's colonial history? Two mapping projects reveal the horrible truth
How do you get so massive so fast? The answer could be a big problem for our standard picture of cosmology. Out in the extreme distances of the Universe, the […]
This could lead to new pain relievers that mute the sensation without increasing the risk of addiction.
Stanford researchers identify five different types of anxiety, each correlating with the activation of different brain networks.