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Asymmetric organocatalysis is an environmentally friendly way of accelerating chemical reactions and creating specific types of molecules.
MIT scientists show how fast algorithms are improving across a broad range of examples, demonstrating their critical importance in advancing computing.
Time and again, studies have found a connection between authoritarian ideals and meaning in life — a notion backed up by historical documents.
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Our current form of education is almost 200 years old. What should schools of the future look like?
Stand Together
Stoicism says that we should change what we can, endure what we must. The company we keep is something we can, and often should, change.
In 1966, Disney announced his intention to build Epcot, an acronym for “Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow.”
The microscopic tardigrades are an elusive species. Fossils are rare, but each new find adds a piece to their unsolved evolutionary puzzle.
In a world without "bullshit jobs," we would have more hours available to us to learn new skills and to unleash our creative side.
Two mounds of rice and a tiny flag in a sea of curry is enough to re-heat an old territorial conflict.
Computer Space lacked a critical ingredient that the other games possessed: gravity.
The "overview effect," experienced by astronauts when they view the Earth from outer space, irrevocably changes your perspective as a human.