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When it comes time for humanity to pick a new home, where will we go?
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Getting older — see: looking older — is not ideal in the workplace culture of youthfulness.
The possibility of an easy, non-invasive detection method arises.
Have you ever found yourself so engrossed in your work that, hours later, you’ve been shocked to discover you’ve missed your lunch break? Maybe you’ve had a conversation with a […]
Researchers recently discovered an antibody that totally disrupts the influenza virus's ability to replicate; it could be used to design a universal flu vaccine.
Archetypes of creation and the origin of all things.
Forget about alien nonsense. The Universe as it actually is doesn’t need any embellishments to be interesting. In our Solar System, the planets, moons, asteroids, comets and other masses are […]
A historic NASA probe sends back a treasure-trove of information from billions of miles away.
A new paper claims that scientists might be wildly mistaken about the density — and therefore, the shape — of our universe.
The green market is growing exponentially. But will the U.S. seize the economic opportunity?
"Sea of Shadows" is a documentary you can't afford to miss.
If you think about the way a gravitational wave detector works, you might encounter a paradox. Here’s the solution. One of the greatest scientific achievements in all of human history […]
Maybe it's time to show this report your employer?
The finding represents one of the first times we have observed how the human brain clears out its waste products.
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To have breakthrough ideas, try veering off your original field of study.
During a 2005 commencement address at Stanford University, Steve Jobs related an anecdote about an experience he had shortly after dropping out of college that conveys one of the qualities […]
100+ years ago, General Relativity came along, and Einstein gave the Universe a cosmological constant. Here’s why that was a mistake. Back in the 17th century, Isaac Newton put forth the […]
Focusing on the present moment has some strange effects on how people estimate stretches of time.