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The US Navy will begin swapping out expensive periscope joysticks in exchange for off-the-shelf Xbox controllers. 

How location, temperature and moisture create the world's biomes

Do your meetings and brainstorms always end with a pile of decimated ideas? Learn to overcome negativity bias and obstructive tendencies.

You've heard that "perception is reality." Well, it's not. It might even be a hallucination.

Don't settle for comfortable and familiar thoughts, reach for what you don't know, says Harvard professor Stephen Greenblatt.

The off-kilter war of words between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un reminds us of better, funnier insults.

There was a silver lining for patients who have heart disease or diabetes. 

In the US Army, taking a knee has a special connotation.   

The discovery of a neuron in the brain that acts as the “master controller” of habits could someday change the way we treat addiction and compulsive behaviors.

Is "science broken" or self-correcting? And who is going to do the grown-up thing and fix the game (instead of scoring points within it)?

Frank Ostaseski is a Buddhist teacher and leading thinker in end-of-life care. This is what he's learnt about appreciating life while you have it, and being truly present.

A new study discovers how political party affiliation affects people's beliefs in conspiracy theories.

We used to think of genes themselves as set in stone. But the story is far more complex.  

The first (double) episode has come and gone, but here’s what I hope for the series. “We are what we are, and we’re doing the best we can. It is not […]

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What makes a great book... well... great? Author Salman Rushdie gives us his idea on what separates the classics from the rest of the class.

If a passenger claims a pooch is a service dog, there’s nothing much anyone can demand by way of proof.

Russian President Vladimir Putin's recent remarks about the future with artificial intelligence prompted alarm from Elon Musk.

Is there life on other planets? Harvard biologist Jonathan B. Losos has an interesting theory that since there are so many Earth-type planets in our galaxy alone that there's a good chance that there's some humanoid looking (at least in the bipedal sense) creatures out there, too. Just like a Hollywood movie.

Go back to school, Agora style. Philosophy can train us to respond to life's problems rather than merely react. One such training camp is coming to Baltimore.