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Chemo is our best response to cancer so far. A novel new therapy could render it obsolete.
We’d never flown past or imaged a small, isolated Kuiper belt object before. Here’s what we know so far. As 2018 ended and 2019 began, NASA’s New Horizons flew past its […]
When he first became a multi-millionaire, Elon Musk shared how his vision led to success.
A growing middle-class is set to drive the sharing economy in the near future.
Feel like traveling to another dimension? Better choose your black hole wisely.
Everyone is a work in progress — even these household names.
This means the disease may be curable and a vaccine possible.
Philosophers and practical ethicists might gain something from considering the Overton window of political possibilities.
Protestantism is good for some people and bad for others. At least that is the conclusion if we are to judge by the stark matters of life, or death, and […]
Classicist Edith Hall reminds us that Aristotle's "virtue ethics" was a sophisticated, subtle approach to the pursuit of lifelong happiness a couple millennia before Oprah thought of inviting us to live our best life.
"It is unthinkable in this day and time that the law requires a sex-change operation to change gender."
Some things have always been worth celebrating.
Can changing diet actually reverse the growth of cancer in the body?
Throughout his career, the famous philosopher has been trying to correct people's misconceptions about anarchy. Here's some of his thinking.
Researchers at the University of Basel in Switzerland have hijacked cancer's cellular plasticity to turn the disease against itself.
Whether you caught or missed the eclipse of January 20/21, 2019, here’s what you need to know for all the ones you’ll ever view again. On January 20/21, 2019, a very […]