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In such states of creative divergent thinking, the body is aroused and the pupils become dilated.
An inside look at common relationship problems that link to how we were raised.
Coke, meth, ecstasy, amphetamines: each drug has a different 'capital'
Need to isolate? No problem! This philosopher is keeping the world posted on his isolation routine by Facebook.
The pandemic is exposing long-fractured aspects of our society.
We’ve never found eight stars bound together in the same stable system. But nature might make it so. The Universe that we have is often more wondrous and bizarre than even […]
Study shows ripples across a newly fertilized egg are similar to ocean and atmospheric circulations.
Medical researchers put a ring on it to learn more about the onset of COVID-19.
Today, our observable Universe extends for 46 billion light-years in all directions. But early on, things were much smaller. There are few things we can conceive of that are as mind-bogglingly […]
Economics professor Stephen M. Miller shares his insights in this exclusive interview.
What symptoms to watch for, how to get tested, what to do if you're sick, and when to go to the doctor.
Facing a shortage of medical resources, doctors in the U.S. may have to make difficult moral decisions over how to allocate care.
A new study shows the benefits of calorie restriction. Never has such advice been more needed.
And why social distancing, isolation, and sheltering-in-place are so effective, but only if we do them early enough. In any biological system, if you put a living organism into an environment […]
Because geocaches are always hidden out of sight, players often have to behave in out-of-the-ordinary ways to reach them.
Retail therapy has been proven to make us happier, but is there a catch?
A new study found that practicing mindfulness can lower feelings of paranoia.
Lawrence "Larry" Brilliant, an American epidemiologist who helped eradicate smallpox, warned about the inevitability of a global pandemic in a now-famous 2006 TED Talk.