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Neuroscience suggests that we have limited free will, but there is a model of freedom that even neuroscientists support; "free won't".
A recent report covered in Runner's World says the sweet spot might just be forty miles a week.
"Plan your family on the go," a new campaign says. The London Sperm Bank thinks women might appreciate selecting a sperm donor the way they find a date on the hook-up app Tinder.
A Yale study finds implicit racial bias in a study of 132 white and black preschool educators, but in different ways.
So how would you like your prescription? A dragon? Tiger? Something tribal maybe?
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What's the most important ingredient in cooking? If you think it's love, give yourself zero pats on the back. According to Alton Brown, it's scientific enquiry.
And can we even agree on the definition of ‘nothingness’? “Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge […]
Elon Musk has a pretty ambitious plan to get humans to live on Mars in 40 years. Here's the tech that'll make that happen.
More Americans now use opioids than tobacco, while pro-painkiller lobbies outspend opposition 200 to 1.
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The CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation lays out three tools to boost innovative ideas and re-draw the frontiers of business and creativity.
We often hear rhetoric comparing certain political leaders and moments to Fascism. But, is that accurate? Perhaps more importantly, is that a good thing?
Prediction is reinventing industries and running the world. More and more, predictive analytics drives commerce, manufacturing, healthcare, government, and law enforcement.
The darkness we see from Earth can never be 100% dark. “All I want is blackness. Blackness and silence.” -Sylvia Plath If you take a look at the night sky […]
According to Elon Musk, it'll only take between 40 and 100 years to achieve a fully self-sustaining civilization on Mars. Here's how.
Japanese car maker introduces self-driving chairs to eliminate lines.
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Has the oldest problem in the book become taboo again? C. Nicole Mason expresses concern over a nation-wide moral failure that is leaving the U.S.'s most vulnerable to struggle in silence.
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The average person checks their phone 200 times a day. It borders on addiction for some, but according to cyberpsychologist Mary Aiken there are easy ways to unlearn this compulsion.
SONY Computer Science Labs has developed AI FlowComposer to write music.
Researchers create a new theory of time that goes against established physics.
A senior scientist from the SETI project imagines how we’ll react to inarguable evidence of an alien civilization.