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Left to their own devices, yeast cells will consume all available resources and poison themselves to death. Is humanity smarter than that?
For Nietzsche, a great work of art can either veil the horror of reality or – better yet – help us face it.
The state of global democracy is relatively strong — but there are clear signs of recent erosion.
Ev Fedorenko’s Interesting Brains Project highlights the human brain’s remarkable capacity to adapt, reorganize in the face of early damage.
This is your brain on work.
The zero-point energy of empty space is not zero. Even with all the physics we know, we have no idea how to calculate what it ought to be.
"Of course, the spleen is the biggest organ in the body."
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History’s most remarkable leaders had this one trait in common. We can harness it too.
Take a trip through these master-crafted fantasy societies and ask yourself: Could I actually live there?
"Painfully forced" is how one contemporary critic described Fitzgerald's writing style.
3D-printing robots are being used to build a 100-home housing development in the US state of Texas.
Extreme home environments — either very supportive or harshly negligent — tend to produce more sensitive kids.
What kind of object will you form? What will its fate be? How long will a star live? Almost everything is determined by mass alone.
The Apple Watch could soon take the pain out of monitoring blood sugar levels.
Archaeologists turn to other scientific fields to fill in the picture of how victims lived and why they died.
An innovation's value is found between the technophile’s promises and the Luddite’s doomsday scenarios.
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The $25 card game that unlocks high achieving teams.
A non-invasive method for looking inside structures is solving mysteries about the ancient pyramid.
New research shows psychedelics activate receptors inside brain cells that other compounds, like serotonin, cannot.