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Researchers discovered something modern humans had never before seen—a flashy Neanderthal horn collection.
We are about to learn a lot more about the most elusive of cosmic particles.
This is the latest study to confirm that the brain does not fully mature until at least the third decade of life.
High-conflict people are found in all walks of life. Learning how to identify them, and what to do next, can save you much emotional turmoil.
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Your sexual education was probably inadequate. Here’s the information you always needed.
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It has perhaps never been easier to feel as if you’ve fallen behind in life. From the anxieties of comparing yourself to others online to our fetishization of success, it […]
Lots of people have seen lots of bizarre events and phenomena that defy our conventional experience. But is there a scientific explanation?
Temperatures in the Sun's core exceed 10 million degrees Celsius. But how on Earth did we actually come to know that?
Financial setbacks are more common than you might think.
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Not everything that claims to be "scientific" actually is. There are five features of scientifically rigorous studies.
Humiliating powerful people was not a key to success.
A new discovery pushes back the origin of these technologies by about 40,000 years.
With a bigger, better, and more sensitive detector, the XENON collaboration joins LZ and PANDA-X in constraining WIMP dark matter.
Biological age is a better health indicator than the number of years you’ve lived, but it’s tricky to measure.
Theory without experiment is blind, and experiment without theory is lame.
Whether you're developing or in the market for corporate training videos, these examples from PwC, Chick-fil-A, and others are sure to impress.
Being a jerk gets you rich, promoted, and laid (if you're a man). But there is a downside.
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Steven Pinker explains how to cultivate greater rationality in today's complex world.