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There now is compelling evidence to support the notion that much information about another person’s mind can be gleaned from his or her eyes. 
In this brave new world, innovative synthetic beverages will be able to deliver all the desirable and none of the negative effects of booze.
It takes an average of 7.5 months to build a single-family home. A Ukrainian startup has cut that timeframe down to just 8 hours.
There are a lot of aspects to leaving an “anatomical gift” which one might find surprising.
Tesla's all-electric semi-truck is getting some big first orders and government help.
All of this has happened before… but not like this! As the year draws to a close, we approach a very special time of year, at least from an astronomical perspective. […]
It’s called change blindness, and you probably have it.
The Germans have a lovely saying for the benefits of keeping an idle mind: ‘die Seele baumeln lassen’, meaning ‘let the soul dangle’.    
Rock salt is great at keeping roads free of ice, but using it over the long term poses serious dangers.
What was going on in the world of health and strange bodily functions?  
Researchers used the same method that would be employed to detect life on Mars.    
The social media company's new policies only spotlight its arbitrary decision-making process.
Today, our visible Universe contains 2 trillion galaxies, each with billions of stars. But when did the very first one appear? When we look out at our Universe today, there are […]
How Nelson Mandela, quantum mechanics, and the Internet combined to provide evidence of parallel universes. 
In only two weeks the anonymous philanthropist has given away $18 million.
An international team of researchers claims to have found a major cause of dementia - an incurable brain disease.
Bullshit greases the wheels of sociability. Questioning bullshit can be a sure way to lose friends and alienate people.