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What if you could just grow your own blood?
The concept of burnout is nothing new. But there are ways to prevent burnout and promote greater engagement with work.
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Deep secrets don’t explode. They do something worse, explains Michael Slepian.
They could also "turn off" their fear.
Experts explain how lie detectors work, what happens in the brain when we tell lies and how accurate polygraph tests are.
Some solar cells are so lightweight they can sit on a soap bubble.
The shift from steam to electricity was inevitable — but some foresaw it earlier than others.
For nearly a century, physicists have argued over how to interpret quantum physics. But reality exists independent of any interpretation.
Of the world's 300 honey varieties, none is stranger and more dangerous than mad honey.
Seneca thought the use of ice was a "true fever of the most malignant kind."
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In 1965, six boys were stranded on an island. Fifteen months later, the survivors were rescued. How many were there?
John Templeton Foundation
In 2020, scientists took more than a kilo of moon rock and soil back to Earth for testing.
Ever since the Big Bang, cataclysmic events have released enormous amounts of energy. Here's the greatest one ever witnessed.
It will be able to produce 22 million pounds of cultivated meat annually.
We might be dining on insect-based Christmas pies with robot-harvested algae on the side.
These five great books should prompt us to work on what needs fixing the most in the world: ourselves.
A new drug inhibits a human enzyme that coronaviruses hijack in order to replicate.
When we're stressed, our hormones and nervous system produce all sorts of odors.
These were the stories you clicked on the most.
Lithium-ion batteries pose challenges for our transition toward renewable energy. Sodium-sulfur batteries might be a solution.