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NASA's Twins Study is critical to understanding what happens to the human body after a prolonged period in space.
World class athletes, musicians, and chess masters use a similar technique.
A college degree is still a well-trodden path to relative financial success. Even so, a college degree is no longer a guarantee of a secure job, or of any job at all.
Punishment has been a human universal, because it has been in our evolutionary interests. But those evolutionary impulses are crude guides to how we should deal with offenders in contemporary society.
Although we’ve had compelling evidence of this for decades, the pathogen hypothesis is finally being taken seriously.
Amid an ongoing battle over the retail and grocery delivery market, Walmart has filed a patent for robotic bees that would pollinate crops just like the real insects.
In honor of St. Patrick's day and Women's History Month, we present 10 Irish American women who changed the world in their own way.
It is becoming an increasingly popular trend in Silicon Valley to place failure on a pedestal. According to author Tim Ferriss, the phrase “fail fast, fail forward” has become a […]
A Wikipedia/YouTube "fact checker" relationship is in the works.
One of the three basic circuit elements just got a lot smaller for the very first time, in what promises to be a trillion-dollar breakthrough. In the race for ever-improving […]
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Why are the poorest Americans still sold on the American dream?
There are few more powerful positions than being a Supreme Court justice, yet the female justices are just like other women: talked over by their male colleagues.
You’d be surprised how many bad things happened on the exact same day.
As more intellectuals seek a common ground between the left-right divide, these ten books offer insights on how to navigate challenging topics.
History will remember Stephen Hawking for his many contributions to cosmology and astrophysics, but his beliefs about the future could soon prove just as important.
Most stars obey very similar rules, making them almost entirely predictable. But then, there are the weirdos. Catch this live-blog event to learn more. When we look out at the Universe […]
Now might just be the best time in history to be a geek or a nerd. How have the definitions and connotations changed over time?
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NASA's director of science communication explains why success and failure are vague, impractical metrics to give young people.
Women who receive harassment online are often told to simply ignore it, and reminded that anyone can experience harassment on online. But feminist women seem to be particularly targeted.
DNA testing of the remains of nine women with elongated skulls suggests a strange explanation for how they likely ended up hundreds of miles from their homeland.