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Being bilingual benefits children as they learn to speak — and adults as they age.
People who have a regional accent might prefer robots who speak like them over generic voices.
Galaxies don't simply feed their central supermassive black holes, but the activity generated inside affects the entire galaxy and more.
These scrolls are the only remaining intact library of ancient Rome — and they will crumble at a touch.
Police forces are choosing humans over algorithms to make some identifications.
Neuroscientist Tali Sharot recently spoke with Big Think about a two-step method for escaping the dark sides of habits.
When all your teammates fall for "the emperor's new clothes," the results can be disastrous — here's how to bust the groupthink.
Symmetries aren't just about folding or rotating a piece of paper, but have a profound array of applications when it comes to physics.
The National Defense Education Act of 1958 meshed with white anxiety about the desegregation of schools.
Here's the case for why science can't keep ignoring human experience.
Ground-based facilities enable the greatest scientific production in all of astronomy. The NSF needs to be ambitious, and it's now or never.
Is it genes or their special bond that drives identical twins to offend at similar rates?
Alli Webb, co-founder of Drybar, has a message for up-and-coming leaders: Embrace the mess!
The Multiverse fuels some of the 21st century's best fiction stories. But its supporting pillars are on extremely stable scientific footing.
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Genes are sometimes called the “blueprint of life,” but that doesn't make them the behavioral playbook.
Too many leaders create an imbalance between thinking and doing — but a clear vision can be sharpened through deep reflection.
To Fred Hoyle, the Big Bang was nothing more than a creationist myth. 75 years later, it's cemented as the beginning of our Universe.
In a recent paper, biologists outlined a three-part hypothesis for how all life as we know it began.
A simple dice game shines a bit of light on the psychology of regret.