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This is the first vision test of a fetus from inside the womb.
More massive is bigger, less massive is smaller, right? That’s not even half the story. “Billions of years from now our sun, then a distended red giant star, will have reduced […]
It turns out most of the ocean's plastic is coming from a single corner of the world.
It could be on the market in about five years.
Unless we take a more scientific approach to philanthropy, we risk spending a lot of money doing some very backward, ineffective, and inefficient things.
Do volcanoes contribute a significant amount of CO2 to the atmosphere compared to humans?
Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Poet, playwright, and arts educator Liza Jessie Peterson on lessons learned teaching incarcerated youth on Rikers Island.
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Has CRISPR co-creator Jennifer Doudna invented the Pandora's Box of genetic engineering, or can CRISPR be used for the forces of good?
This isn’t an XZibit joke; it’s a real scientific question. And the answer may be that it’s possible after all. “People who work every day are kind of scared of things […]
Why is Machiavelli's The Prince still relevant today?
A long-lost eight wonder of the world may have just been found in New Zealand.
There's a link between American marijuana use and violent crime south of the U.S. and Mexico border... and even a link with avocados.
Participants receiving brain stimulation were more likely to solve difficult problems creatively.
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Everything is cheap and nobody has jobs. Welcome to the future. President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas fills us in on how we got here.
Gravitational waves and electromagnetic ones don’t need to go together. But physics says it’s possible; what do the observations say? “The black holes collide in complete darkness. None of the […]
Memory illusions may be making us overconfident about our memory recall.
Groundbreaking research finds that the human brain creates multi-dimensional neural structures.
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Cornel West talks about everyday poets, being the best of the human species, hope, what wokeness really means, and revolution.
Over 1,100 teens in Australia exhibited low self-esteem and aggressive behavior linked to late-night phone and social media usage.