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On-demand learning has become the cornerstone of a modern L&D strategy. Here's why.
Finland reveals that happiness is more about mindset than umbrella drinks and sun-warmed beaches.
To clear Scotland’s roads in winter, the local traffic agency employs heavy machinery with punny names. Can you grit and bear it?
Lake Baikal holds nearly one-fourth of Earth's fresh surface water and is the most scientifically interesting lake on our planet.
Long before the Wordle mania, there was the crossword puzzle craze. And newspapers around the world condemned them as an “invasive weed” that caused mental illnesses and even murder.
Nearly 200 orbital launches are scheduled for 2022.
The story of dog domestication is one of converting the wild wolf into man's nicer, smarter, best friend. It might be all wrong.
A study proposes that an ancient trading network, called the Hopewell tradition, may have been wiped out by what is known as a cosmic airburst.
With 1550 distinct type Ia supernovae measured across ~10 billion years of cosmic time, the Pantheon+ data set reveals our Universe.
One god stands for order, logic, and reason. The other stands for chaos, madness, and drunkenness. Nietzsche thinks you need both.
We value human life in a way that assumes we possess a sacred something not found in beings like lambs, turkeys, or mosquitoes.
How much we enjoy a conversation can all be a matter of timing — specifically, how long it takes us to respond to what was just said.
Until recently, we were only able to view Venus's surface with radar or by landing on the planet. It was believed that Venus's surface was entirely obscured by clouds; NASA's Parker Solar Probe proved otherwise.
The quadratic formula isn't just something that teachers use to torture algebra students. The Babylonians once used it to calculate taxes.
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It’s not a glitch in the matrix. It’s not the Mandela effect. There’s actually a scientific reason you remember things wrong.
The Poisson distribution has everyday applications in science, finance, and insurance. To compare the results of some biomedical studies, more people ought to be familiar with it.
If your partner is not helping build a better you, is it time for a better partner?
The ten greatest ideas in science form the bedrock of modern biology, chemistry, and physics. Everyone should be familiar with them.
America’s war in Southeast Asia is fading fast from memory. These maps offer a horrific reminder.