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Give yourself (and others) a break.
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Make it simple. Make it clear. Make it stick. Alan Alda on how to get everyone to understand your thoughts.
John Templeton Foundation
Humanity's newest, most powerful space telescope is performing even better than predicted. The reason why is unprecedented.
Has the "age of psychopharmacology” shrunk society’s sense of responsibility for mental health?
Ancient bones reveal that domesticated felines were at home in Pre-Neolithic Poland around 8,000 years ago.
Millennials are reversing a 40-year decline in stroke deaths.
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Here’s what job interviewers are testing you for, according to economist Tyler Cowen.
Once activated, the CRISPR-Cas12a2 system goes on a rampage, chopping up DNA and RNA indiscriminately, causing cell death.
Communication among cetaceans, like whales and dolphins, looks especially promising.
Despite being called the "dismal science," economics impacts our lives every day. Here, we look at seven of the greatest economists in history.
A new study of global love finds that Americans have some of the most loving relationships, while Chinese and Germans have some of the least.
It may be possible to give people the tools to withstand difficulty before it attaches to them.
Cryo-electron tomography, or cryo-ET, is the future of cell research.
A conversation with an advanced alien species is likely to be simple and to take 1,000 years. It might also be dangerous.
If life is common in the Universe, then where is everybody? Known as the Fermi Paradox, a new project may help solve the riddle.
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Strategy advisor Roger Martin explains how 2,000 year old military thinking is useful in modern business strategy.
Individual space telescopes, like Hubble and JWST, revolutionized our knowledge of the Universe. What if we had an array of them, instead?
Creative people are better able to engage brain systems that don’t typically work together.
Einstein tried to disprove quantum mechanics. Instead, a weird concept called entanglement showed that Einstein was wrong.
Day trading has the potential to yield incredible profits, but without a time machine, you’re unlikely to achieve them.
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