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In 1924, sociologist and social reformer Caroline Bartlett Crane designed an award-winning tiny home in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
A woman feeling the music in a green hat.
After listening to the same playlist, people from the United Kingdom, the United States, and China reported feeling nearly identical bodily sensations.
The logo of the United Nations symbolizes global cooperation and the scales of justice represent fairness in legal matters.
The benefits of going the extra mile to be socially responsible are felt by customers, employees, and shareholders alike. Here’s a plan to secure them.
Illustration of the solar system's planets and their predicted fates, with some being swallowed by the sun as it dies and others stripped of their atmospheres or ejected.
For now, our Solar System's eight planets are all safe, and relatively stable. Billions of years from now, everything will be different.
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Its creators hope the technology will help people meaningfully connect with the external world.
A small piece of rock from Germany on a white surface.
Meanwhile meteorite hunters rushed to Berlin to find this most rare space rock.
A woman is working on a robot in a factory.
NASA gave three robots plans for a moon shelter, and the robots figured out how to build it.
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Until the Apollo missions, we had no idea how the moon got here, just a series of educated guesses. They rewrote the story of the moon’s origins.
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To hallucinate means you must first perceive.
Planets in varying sizes orbiting around a bright central star in a purple-hued cosmos, where life persists.
There are plenty of life-friendly stellar systems in the Universe today. But at some point in the far future, life's final extinction will occur.
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The second law of thermodynamics tells us that entropy always increases. But that doesn't mean it was zero at the start of the Big Bang.
A cluster of vibrant houses perched on a mountainside, offering a sense of life satisfaction.
Some of the world's most satisfied societies are poor, small, and remote.
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Actor, author, and director Jesse Eisenberg demystifies the role of anxiety and self-doubt in leadership.
Michael Jordan and Mike Jordan, both impact players.
It’s not enough to nurture star players — the key is to cultivate everyone’s ability to collaborate and bring value.
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Everything acts like a wave while it propagates, but behaves like a particle whenever it interacts. The origins of this duality go way back.
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What Shark Tank pitches, Sundance films, and unusual sandwiches show us about our choices.
A black and white photo of a man and a woman to memorize.
To make a ton of information stick in your mind, you have to make it chunky.