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It might seem petty and shallow to get upset over a bad gift, but there's often a deeper reason behind the feeling.
With its first view of a protoplanetary disk around a newly forming star, the JWST reveals how alone individual stellar systems truly are.
Economic growth is more about quality than quantity.
One award was for a medical procedure that incapacitated thousands of people.
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Economist Tyler Cowen says there are good reasons to be crypto-skeptical.
The DARPA-funded memory prosthesis helps the brain retain new information.
Negative feedback ignites the primal (“fight or flight”) and emotional (“do they hate me?”) parts of our brain first.
This year’s Nobel Peace Prize ceremony sends yet another strong message to Russian president Vladimir Putin.
Which studies are actually worth the hype?
The findings of a recent study may help explain why some people are quicker to forget fearful memories.
Innovation training encourages the kind of creativity and problem solving that can lead to breakthroughs in business.
One of the winners. Dr. K. Barry Sharpless, is now the fifth person in history to win two Nobels.
After 10,000 years of civilization, have we figured out what virtue is?
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Dr. Carl Hart breaks taboos surrounding drug use in America.
Forensic researchers call such places “limited access environments.”
The Universe begins with negligible amounts of angular momentum, which is always conserved. So why do planets, stars, and galaxies all spin?
More than 1,000 years ago, Mesoamerican societies conducted one of history's most interesting experiments in commodity money.
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Many were expecting extremism survivor and free speech advocate Salman Rushdie to take home the Nobel Prize in Literature, but Annie Ernaux beat him to it.
Einstein always loses in the quantum realm.