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Mindfulness, detachment, selecting off-time activities with care: Here are evidence-based strategies to achieve healthy work-life balance.
The Universe is 13.8 billion years old, going back to the hot Big Bang. But was that truly the beginning, and is that truly its age?
It is humanity's biggest step yet into the Solar System.
The history of money is a history of convenience, and spending has never been easier than it is today.
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Is science for everyone, or just the morally upright?
There's the textbook answer, then there's the real answer.
After cryptoassets, a wave of central bank digital currencies is set to revolutionize our ideas about what money is and how to manage it.
SpinLaunch will cleverly attempt to reach space with minimal rocket fuel. But will physics prevent a full-scale version from succeeding?
Population growth is driven by three changes: Fertility, mortality, and migration.
We cannot afford to dream about living on other worlds while we continue to destroy ours.
These 10 best practices can help organizations develop high-quality and engaging training videos for employees.
You don't have to be an emperor to apply these rules to daily living.
From astrobiology to geology, a Moon base could serve as a laboratory unlike anything on Earth.
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Short-term thinkers take shortcuts. Take the long path instead, explains futurist Ari Wallach.
The image you're seeing isn't a hole in the Universe, and the cosmic voids that do exist aren't hole-like at all.
By challenging your preconceptions, art offers a framework by which you can solve problems.
Its apples taste bad, but institutions all over the world want a descendant or clone of the tree, anyway.
You want your baby's name to be unique, but so does everyone else.
If everyone just showed up to their appointments, $150 billion of waste could be averted.