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IT has been one of the fastest growing and most lucrative industries for a long time. But is that going to be true in the future?
What does a fast-casual diner have to do with natural disasters? Quite a bit, actually.
What took hundreds of millions of years to create is being wasted on… party balloons? There’s a natural resource found beneath Earth’s surface that’s been building up for hundreds of […]
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It will take a crack team of scientists, programmers and philosophers to cure the online hate pandemic.
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From Godzilla to The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, it's everywhere.
New research shows that aimlessness can be fatal.
New research on the devastating health effects of ultra-processed foods has some saying yes.
Techno-fixes will not get us where we need to be to stop the effects of climate change.
A new study discovered that lack of purpose leads to earlier death.
 “Self-talk has been the biggest thing in my life,” says former Navy SEAL David Goggins. He knows he’s not alone. He also knows it’s largely, to use his words, “a […]
And if they exist, are there alternate-reality versions of you out there, too? You’ve likely imagined it before: another Universe out there, just like this one, where all the random events […]
The realism of video games takes storytelling to another level.
The results show how diets high in saturated fat can cause fatty acids to build up in the hypothalamus, disrupting its normal functioning.
We put presidents on our money, but isn't there more to life than politics?
Notre Dame was almost torched in 1871, when Communards set Paris' major buildings ablaze.