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18mins
The American economy may be locked into an unhealthy cycle that only benefits a select few. Is it too late to fix it?
New research reveals the extent to which groupthink bias is increasingly being built into the content we consume.
It can mean citizens drinking contaminated groundwater or being schooled in decaying buildings with asbestos problems.
The problem is that what's true of magnets is not at all true of romance.
A new study shows bacteria could survive travel from Earth to Mars.
There was a time in the Universe before we formed stars. Here’s how we’re exploring it. When we look out at the Universe today, we see that it’s full of […]
"It's kind of like a Fitbit in your skull with tiny wires," Musk said.
Teaching community organizers via WhatsApp yields encouraging results in South Africa, according to MIT Governance Lab research.
The mission could launch as soon as the 2030s, the researchers said.
Utilizing nuclear waste converted to diamonds, this company's batteries will reportedly last thousands of years in some cases.
New research shows that neurons in autistic brains begin to developmentally diverge in early prenatal stages.
There was less than a 2 second delay between gravitational waves and light, but that’s incredibly meaningful. There’s an important rule in relativity that — as far as we know — all objects must […]
5mins
Educators have proven that they can "turn the aircraft carrier" when they need to, but the system needs to match their efforts.
A new study at Emory Vaccine Center gets into the bone marrow.
Will nefarious players use social media to sway public opinion again this November?
Johns Hopkins researchers hope this could lead to new interventions for combating it.
It's a very human behavior—arguably one of the fundamentals that makes us us.