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TikTok and its allies won't go down without a legal fight.
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Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah Tower is poised to become the world’s tallest building. What’s behind the century-plus drive to build ever taller skyscrapers?
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Hunger rates are rising. These technologies could turn the tide.
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Rhetorical mastery is within everyone’s reach — equipped with some basic techniques you can rock it like Aristotle.
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Gravitational waves carry enormous amounts of energy, but spread out quickly once they leave the source. Could they ever create black holes?
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CERN's NA64 experiment used a high-energy muon beam technique to advance the elusive search for dark matter, offering new hope for solving one of astronomy's greatest mysteries.
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Scientists still aren't sure how they perform without those restorative Z's.
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ATD 2024 challenged us to make moments of recovery part of our daily practice. Here's how each keynote speaker advised finding that balance.
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Jotform CEO Aytekin Tank outlines a strategy for balancing collaboration with healthy competition.
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Traveling back in time is a staple of science fiction movies. But according to Einstein, it's a physical possibility that's truly allowed.
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A researcher weighs in on who’s accountable, when and why, in the eyes of the law — and whether the measures work as intended.
The sharpest optical images, for now, come from the Hubble Space Telescope. A ground-based technique can make images over 100 times sharper.
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Mental health awareness is more widespread than ever. Some professionals think it may have gone overboard — especially on TikTok.
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AI projects reveal both heroes and villains in your workforce — success depends on maximizing the number of heroes.
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Almost 100 years ago, an asymmetric pathology led Dirac to postulate the positron. A similar pathology could lead us to supersymmetry.
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Neuroscientist Christof Koch on human minds, AI, and bacteria.
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The Moon is the most likely place for evidence from the dawn of life on Earth to be preserved in cold storage.
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Whatever your length of service in the top role, this tool-box will help you conquer adversity — and thrive.
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From the coldest planets to spacecraft that have exited the Solar System, these little-known facts stump even many professional astronomers.