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Jeff Bezos is now worth a record $112 billion. Yes, billion with a "b".
The indirectly find was completely unexpected, and, if it holds up, could give the James Webb Space Telescope its first tantalizing target. In the quest to understand our Universe, and […]
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Why are some people so much luckier than others? It's the way they play the game.
Debates about the kind of sex that we should be having are focused on the issue of individual choice and sexual autonomy. We are living, it seems, in the age of consent.
Plogging represents the intersection of personal and ecological health.
A new study from scientists in China suggests that medical devices could one day restore vision to the blind.
The ever-elusive “soft” skills tied to a high emotional intelligence (EQ) remain a key differentiator between wildly successful employees and ones who may struggle to effectively collaborate with their peers. […]
One of astronomy’s most iconic sights in an artifact of faulty optics. Here’s how a new, great design will overcome it. When you look out at the greatest images of the […]
More overweight people are no longer trying to lose weight and the health implications are not good.
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It might seem like humanity disagrees over basic values, but the data is in: we actually don't.
March 6 marked the 50th successful launch of SpaceX’s Falcon 9, which the company plans to soon use to send humans into space.
Experts can't agree on exactly when or where, however.
So-called 'positive stress' has been growing in popularity among Silicon Valley workers.
The 168th known tardigrade—a.k.a "water bear" or "moss piglet"—species can even reproduce in the lab.
In the quantum world of the unstable, even identical particles don’t have identical masses. In the microscopic world of the quantum particle, there are certain rules that are wholly unfamiliar […]
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Is luck a windfall of good fortune, or is it a skill you can cultivate? Janice Kaplan thinks luck works best when it's mixed with purpose.
Gender is burdened by a lot of adjectives these days. It’s non-binary, it’s fluid, it’s ‘over’. According to the American rapper Young Thug, an artist at the helm of hip-hop […]
Researchers use a cutting-edge technique to restore activity to the fragile X syndrome gene.
Since 2016, the exoplanet Proxima b has been a top candidate in the search for alien life. But new findings show that a stellar flare might have scorched that hope entirely.
Friedrich Nietzsche is an influential thinker, but he is not without critics. One of the best of them is British philosopher Bertrand Russell.