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A number of important women are working outside mainstream media to build platforms that address the gray areas in challenging topics.
After a 16 year wait, the star SO-2 will speed past our galaxy’s supermassive black hole at 2.5% the speed of light. It will be the first-of-its-kind test of Einstein’s […]
A recent study from Ontario measured the brain waves of improvisational jazz pianists, finding that the more training they had, the more creative they were rated.
Can female nudity ever be empowering?
The cumulative effect of plastics is taking its toll on the world. So supermarkets are starting to cut it out.
This discovery could lead to not only a better understanding of our evolution but to new treatment options for schizophrenics.
DST has implications on our history, our health, and even our chances of being the victim of a crime.
Truly a negative week in terms of the comments on our Facebook. Maybe have some fruit and some sunshine next week?
Sure, you love your dog. But do you love your dog enough to spend $50,000 on a cloned version of your dog that in all likelihood won't act like your departed pal?
For Women's History Month we have a list of seven all women teams who changed history. Some were scientists, some soldiers, some living, and some long gone. All of them shaped the world.
If the multiverse is real, why hasn’t our Universe, in a sea of infinite possibilities, run into another one at least once? The Universe we inhabit is vast, full of matter […]
Almost every reader will learn from the vast erudition (and biblical proportions) of Steven Pinker's 'Enlightenment Now'. But it's data-lit gospel of progress hides darker biases.
The persistent dream of a “gay utopia” is one of the constants in gay and lesbian historical imaginings over the last 200 years. But is it real?
A new study finds that supposedly healthier standing desks cause physical pain and slow down users’ thinking.
After examining thousands of diabetes patients, researchers in Finland and Sweden identified five distinct categories of diabetes.
AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, and Sprint have all recently unveiled plans for a nationwide 5G network in the US.
The Nonhuman Rights Project turns to philosophy to persuade courts to honor chimpanzees’ rights.
It's raining penguins!
Distances in the expanding Universe don’t work like you’d expect. Unless, that is, you learn to think like a cosmologist. There are a few fundamental facts about the Universe — its origin, […]
"Global capitalism and local traditions are no longer opposites, they are on the same side," says Slavoj Zizek. The traditions of anti-capitalist protest are upended by this fact.