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Could subfertility be an under-explored factor in autism risk?
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Chloé Valdary — founder of Theory of Enchantment — explores two essential practices for generating the team “magic” that drove Apple under Steve Jobs.
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Our cosmic home, planet Earth, has been through a lot over the past 4.5 billion years. Here are some of its most spectacular changes
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BMW found it’s possible to remote-drive vehicles using available technology. All it takes is some software updates and a cellular network connection.
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HaptX gloves provide high-fidelity touch feedback of virtual spaces (and they look cool, too).
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Fire was crucial to the evolution of human technology. That's why alien species stuck in the "oxygen bottleneck" may be forever primitive.
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Depression applies to individuals and businesses alike — and so does the solution.
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For every proton, there were over a billion others that annihilated away with an antimatter counterpart. So where did all that energy go?
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People who score high in "obsessive passion" can become rigidly consumed by ideological causes — sometimes dangerously so.
Aphantasia limits the ability to visualize a statue of a man in the mind's eye.
I also can’t conjure sounds, smells, or any other kind of sensory stimulation inside my head. This is called “aphantasia.”
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One newly discovered, ancient star has a composition unlike any other. Explaining its existence is already blowing astronomers' minds.
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From Hogwarts to hashtags, kids' reading habits have changed drastically in recent decades — but data suggests cause for hope.
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Researchers are finding signs of multiple phases of sleep all over the animal kingdom. The ‘active’ sleep phases look very much like REM.
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Wherever businesses are a powerful force for society, successful leaders embrace the “mission mindset” of shared purpose.
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Planets can be Earth-like or Neptune-like, but only rarely are in between. This hot, Saturn-like planet hints at a solution to this puzzle.
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Smaller family networks, more great-grandparents, and fewer cousins.
The Medea affect is brilliantly captured in this painting of a powerful woman brandishing a sword.
Parents will sometimes use children as weapons in their relationship battles — and the fallout can be devastating.
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Environmental progress is happening quickly but we must keep pushing for change.
The six disciplines of strategic thinking.
Why has the value of strategic thinking never been higher? It’s complex.