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Infographics detailing the exporting of live animals from Africa, 2001-2015
If you don’t learn this one lesson, you’ll not only never be good at science, you’ll never learn anything new. “Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong […]
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Look at Wall Street in 2008, and the White House right now. Diversity—of people and cognitive perspectives—is crucial for avoiding failure.
This is a nice addition to the findings of the “yellow snow” study.
A recent study looks at whether collective apologies on behalf of countries may inspire hope that can lead to reconciliation.
Anxiety is now the number one disorder on the planet. Yet it's oddly ignored from public conversation.
Children’s drawings of houses rendered as they’d look in real life.
A company’s culture can have a strong influence on both current employees and potential hires. With the right company culture, an organization can attract and retain engaged employees who add […]
Neil deGrasse Tyson: “One of the things that I think is missing in the educational pipeline in America is… a class on what science is, and how and why it works.”
Finding a warm-hot intergalactic plasma is amazing! But we still need dark matter just as much as ever. “There are stars leaving the Milky Way, and immense gas clouds falling […]
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Does religion help us survive? No more than moths thrive in flame, says Richard Dawkins.
What happened before the Big Bang?
How do people with a split brain continue to function as a single human being?
Your mindset can rewind aging, physically and mentally, as these jaw-dropping experiments show.
This discovery finally points to the source of Earth's precious heavy elements, also proves Einstein correct in more ways than one.
It seems intuitive that the best way to interpret how others are feeling would be to both see and hear how they’re behaving. However, a new study suggests that’s dead wrong.
IFLS might be fun for the armchair enthusiast, but couldn’t you have at least consulted an expert? “You were always a good officer. Until you weren’t.”-Saru, from Star Trek: Discovery With […]
Another week, another fine selection of witty and wonderful comments from our Facebook page. Did you make the cut?
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Both Republicans and Democrats blame the poor on each side, creating a terrible dissonance in our politics and in our nation's psyche.
U.S. Congress heard expert testimony on a potentially devastating military threat from North Korea.