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DEFCON hackers find it’s really easy to hack U.S. voting machines.
Charisma comes down to two things.
Most marriages end in resentment. Why should longevity be the sole marker of a successful marriage?
We know that body language reveals a lot. But language is an even bigger tell if you know what to look for.
This is the oldest fossil ever found belonging to the line that leads to us.
Our empathy is getting better, but universal? No way.
NASA and SETI invite the public to nickname a small icy world, or pair of worlds, in the distant Kuiper Belt ahead of a New Horizons 2019 flyby.
A new study explains why some people seem to be better than others at ridding their minds of intrusive thoughts.
For just a year’s worth of US Military budget, we could transform the world. The United States spends more on military spending than the next ten nations combined: an estimated $600 […]
Wow. Reading Hawking's Ph.D. paper is like listening to Pink Floyd for decades and then suddenly finding out they had a different and even more groundbreaking debut album.
Music is our oldest and most cherished ritual. How we treat it is reflective of who we are.
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The big, unknowable questions in life are seductive, but without small, trivial questions as insulation, those large mysteries can consume us.
These results may someday offer doctors an early warning biomarker for heart disease.
The idea is just as ‘crazy’ as Einstein telling us that time slows down at high speeds, or Darwin saying that our ancestors were apes.
A new survey reveals how satisfied employees of different tech companies are with their pay and whether they'd like to leave.
North Korea has a long history of making bellicose threats that defy global norms. So does that mean the country's leaders are irrational, and will act irrationally?
The discovery of the first-ever asteroid to arrive from interstellar space is full of lessons for us all. On October 19th, astronomers discovered an objectunlike any other we’d seen before: a […]
Jellyfish have their tentacles all tangled up in our lives in ways we’re only dimly aware of.
Virtually every organization engages in some form of employee development and training. There are so many obvious benefits to training, such as ensuring that employees have specific skills or understand […]
There are plenty of questions we don’t know the answer to. With quantum gravity, they might be solved! This article is written by Sabine Hossenfelder. Sabine is a theoretical physicist specialized […]