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Advancements in creating artificial meat raise questions.
Earthquake? Nuclear explosion? Fission or fusion? We know, even if world leaders lie. “North Korea has taught a great lesson to all the countries in the world, especially the rogue countries […]
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The most revelatory answers in life come from complex, diverse populations. Technology can open our eyes to what we're missing and destroy our subconscious biases in one fell swoop.
Hans Monderman believed that societies could make roads safer by making drivers more uncertain, and therefore alert.
We're talking Ghost in the Shell type of stuff.
A new study offers a theory of how the Universe was filled with visible light, up to a billion years after the Big Bang.
What do you make of the image above? Day Glow slippers under a black light? Colorful sleeping bags for a trio of Minions? March of the Radioactive Penguins? Of course, it's none of the above.
Getting promoted to manager is a huge change for many employees—regardless of the industry they work in. All of a sudden, promoted managers have new roles and responsibilities to fill; […]
Astrophysicists turn Saturn's moons and rings into music.
Cartesian vortices are *so* 17-th century.
Scientists have developed an algorithm that reliably detects the signs of Alzheimer’s dementia before its onset.
Our most common fears of the “other” extend even into outer space. Here’s why those fears are baseless. “Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without […]
The Three-Body Problem series lays out a powerful case for why we should stop looking for aliens, and solves the Fermi paradox.
A piece of legislation to address the problem is getting widespread support. Yet, it’s stalled.
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The Actors' Gang Prison Project has spent ten years proving that teaching prisoners self-worth and emotional intelligence pays off.
Hitler is commonly thought to have been an atheist, a claim that's often used in debates about the perils of atheistic belief on a mass scale. But was he?
It's always been our brains.
The FDA approves the first “living drug” cell therapy for childhood leukemia.
Treating the theological and the political as warring forces stops us from looking at the more surprising ways that they interact and inform each other.
Social citizenship is both a feeling of belonging and a definable set of commitments and obligations associated with living in a place; it is not second-class national citizenship.