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They fed it data from "the darkest corners of Reddit forums."
A new study of CDC survey data shows that children with autism spectrum disorder are more than twice as likely to have a food allergy, causing scientists to ask which comes first.
In the wake of suicides by high-profile and much-beloved celebrities Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain, psychologists and psychiatrists say that suicide is too complex and indeterminate for humans to predict.
If the universe is teeming with life, where is everybody? If this physicist is correct, they have one foot in their graves.
Who needs a hole in the head? As it turns out, lots of people in ancient hospitals did. Why was one society so good at keeping people alive after it opened up their skulls?
A review of 33 trials confirms that loading your body does your brain good.
The data has been taken, collected, and analyzed. So where is the first image of an event horizon, already? Across multiple continents, including Antarctica, an array of radio telescopes observe the […]
A new study from the University of Oxford reveals what foods are, and are not, healthy for the environment.
Exhaustion and its effects have preoccupied thinkers since classical antiquity. A look at historically specific theories of exhaustion shows a tendency to look back nostalgically to a supposedly simpler time.
More and more prosecutors across the US are going after the friends and family of those who die from a drug overdose. Is this practice morally acceptable?
A new study shows how the personalities of men and women are changed by marriage.
At one point during the Neolithic era, the Y-chromosome in our species became far less diverse. Called the Neolithic bottleneck, the reason for it may have finally been revealed.
Researchers now have an antibody that specifically targets cancer cells, while leaving healthy ones alone.
Plus: how accurate was the backlash to the Apollo missions, as depicted in the film?
If emissions don’t go down, there’s still an option for combatting global warming. We just have to effectively dim the Sun. Global climate change is one of the most pressing long-term […]
Scientists in Australia have demonstrated that honeybees can be trained to understand the concept of zero, something which took humans millennia to develop.
New technology could enable remote control of drug delivery, sensing, and other medical applications.
To improve hiring efficiency and success, companies are starting to leverage neuroscience gaming and AI to identify and attract the best people.
The CDC has published very worrisome statistics about this upward trend in our culture.