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New research finds how power dynamics shape the speech of men and women.
'Millennial' doesn't hold nearly as much meaning as Americans pretend it does. Here's why.
A company claims to make the world's first humanoid android and offers 'digital immortality".
Primordial Earth exists in a small chamber in New Jersey.
"I think when you come to grips with what happened, it gives you a chance of doing something different. What's really dark is when you're going through something and you have no perspective." By revisiting—through poetry—his 9 years in prison for a teenage carjacking, Reginald Dwayne Betts finds freedoms most of us have never known.
Unsurprisingly, the results showed that the more materialistic a person was, the less likely they were to engage in reduced consumption.
What could be better than "do unto others as you would have others do unto you"?
When the protection of academic freedom is compromised, scholarship and greater society suffer the effects.
Charles Koch Foundation
Can neural networks help scientists discover laws about more complex phenomena, like quantum mechanics?
Many people, including some scientists, fear that the coming 5G WiFi revolution will harm humans. Here’s why that’s unfounded. Over the coming few years, a new set of infrastructure will […]
How do we integrate Gen Z into the 21st century workforce? Intergenerational differences are challenging: whether it’s listening to grandpa’s lecture on what’s wrong with the world these days or […]
When it comes time for humanity to pick a new home, where will we go?
The possibility of an easy, non-invasive detection method arises.
Have you ever found yourself so engrossed in your work that, hours later, you’ve been shocked to discover you’ve missed your lunch break? Maybe you’ve had a conversation with a […]
Researchers recently discovered an antibody that totally disrupts the influenza virus's ability to replicate; it could be used to design a universal flu vaccine.
Archetypes of creation and the origin of all things.
Forget about alien nonsense. The Universe as it actually is doesn’t need any embellishments to be interesting. In our Solar System, the planets, moons, asteroids, comets and other masses are […]
A historic NASA probe sends back a treasure-trove of information from billions of miles away.