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In physics, anything that isn’t forbidden must occur. So why don’t the strong interactions violate CP-symmetry? If you ask a physicist what the biggest unsolved problem facing the field today […]

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Image ownership and copyright law are huge considerations for anyone producing digital content these days. Scopio offers hundreds of royalty-free images for use anywhere for any purpose.

Bill Bryson's new book, "The Body: A Guide For Occupants," provides important (and funny) lessons in anatomy, neuroscience, physiology, biology, and more.

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Sally Susman explains how to use truth-telling moments to your future benefit.

The Leonid meteor shower peaks today. Its parent comet taught us where meteor showers come from. Every year, as Earth regularly orbits the Sun, meteor showers repeatedly recur. While August’s Perseids […]

Doctors put a human into suspended animation for the first time ever.

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Millennial income did not recover from the Great Recession like older generations', a disparity that can have dire consequences for future generations.

Having helped transform how creative work is financed, Yancey Strickler has moved on from Kickstarter, the company he co-founded toward a kind of values reset that moves us away from a narrow, unsustainable, inhumane obsession with profit at all costs.

Throughout history, we find knowledge that can't possibly be documented, but still it exists.

We negotiate throughout our lives in a lot more ways than we realize. Learning how to reach an agreement is a valuable skill to have, and one great way to […]

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While legalization has benefits, a new study suggests it may have one big drawback.

The bill would effectively legalize marijuana at the federal level, while allowing states to draft their own laws.

When it comes to scholarly engagement, what kinds of critique are considered appropriate and acceptable?

Living 150 years sounds great... till you consider the effects on population.

Even before MMA was a combat sport, it was a unique type of astronomy. Today, it’s opening up the Universe as never before. On February 24, 1987, a spectacular signal was […]