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A group of people sitting around a desk signing papers during a Kinsey study.
There are issues with Kinsey's data, but his books revolutionized Americans' thinking about sex and sexuality.
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Generative AI — driven by large language models — has the potential to destroy or supercharge most businesses. Now is the time to pivot.
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If Einstein couldn’t solve the theory of everything, could anyone? Physicist Michio Kaku explains what it would take.
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The hot Big Bang was an energetic, brilliantly luminous event. Today's Universe is alight with stars. But in between, the dark ages ruled.
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Cancer cells hoard iron in unusually high quantities. Scientists have discovered how to leverage this to create safer cancer drugs.
A radioactive wild boar stands in the snow.
Scientists solve a long-standing mystery in Bavaria.
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Successful alpha leadership is more about caring and healing than dog-eat-dog supremacy.
NASA Fermi LAT pulsar gamma ray sky
An enormous amount of antimatter is coming from our galactic center. But the culprit probably isn't dark matter, but merely neutron stars.
An artist's impression of a group of planets in space detected via the doppler method.
Finding a tiny planet around bright stars dozens or hundreds of light-years from Earth is extremely difficult.
A group of people practicing agile innovation while looking at a wall.
Talent wants to be free — but a safe company culture puts “the maze in the mouse” and shackles progress.
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The amygdala can hijack your brain's response if it recognizes past trauma in a current situation. To regain control, simply press pause.
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How do people actually get promoted? According to Harvard career coach Gorick Ng, it’s all about knowing the unspoken rules for success.
galaxy cluster PLCK G165.7+67.0 triply lensed supernova
Named "Supernova H0pe," it shows how JWST plus gravitational lensing can be used to solve the greatest puzzle facing astronomy today.
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To put things in perspective, the cost of sequencing a single genome in 2012 was around $10,000.
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We are prone to false memories. One reason is that we are biased toward remembering tidy endings for events, even if they didn't exist.
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The world is facing many crises, and we should look to natural interdependence and ancient wisdom as we explore science for solutions.
Nasa's nasa spacecraft observing annular eclipse.
An annular eclipse is coming to Earth on October 14, 2023. Six months later, a total solar eclipse is headed our way. Here's the reason why.