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Negative thoughts? Here’s how to rewire your mind
Inspired by the group behaviors of simple animals, a team of roboticists has developed a new way for swarm robots to maneuver on land.
Historians know how military technologies evolved, but the reasons why remain poorly understood.
The findings include signs of flash flooding that carried huge boulders downstream into the lakebed.
An unprecedented number of new satellites threatens the night sky as we know it. Will we act in time to save it?
Our minds are hyper-taxed due to hyper-tasking. We need to slow down and allow ourselves to daydream if we want to improve our attention.
The book Buddha Takes the Mound delivers an engaging and sophisticated account of Buddhism’s worldview through the prism of baseball.
Elevated blood pressure, even within the normal range, is associated with accelerated brain aging.
It's better to pursue moral actions instead of the ephemeral state of happiness, according to the philosopher Immanuel Kant.
Engaging in a brief mindfulness exercise made people who identified “I/me” words 33% less likely to volunteer.
Put two grapes close together in a microwave and you'll get an electrifying result, all because of the physics of plasmas.
Portraiture is one of the most intimate genres in all of painting, and it has reinvented itself many times across European history.
We all employ heuristics to help us deal with the world. But when we make a hasty generalization, we risk making a big error in our thinking.
There has been a 600% increase in European gas prices so far in 2021.
Long assumed to be a devoted vegetarian, ancient sloths were fine with some meat.
After the 2011 Fukushima disaster, it was Germany, not Japan, that cracked down most severely on nuclear power plants.
For the past 150+ years, the big ones have all missed us. But at some point, our good luck will run out.
Deep brain stimulation could represent a breakthrough in the treatment of mental health disorders like major depressive disorder.
Studio Ghibli movies celebrate the natural world using a very Japanese mixture of Shinto, Buddhist, and Daoist themes.
The key is finding which lifestyle suits you best: hedonic, eudaimonic, or experiential.