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We’ve argued over ideology for far too long. It’s time to pick a better route to prosperity. In every civilized society around the world, there’s a trade-off that must be […]
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Law professor Ganesh Sitaraman explains why America has never achieved true democracy—and how it can.
Researchers explore the "complex web of connections" in your brain that allows you to make split second decisions.
Noise pollution is terrible for our health, yet we don't discuss it often enough.
New research explains why the Moon's crust is magnetized by debunking one long-standing theory.
'Little kids, little problems; big kids, big problems.'
The sudden prevalence of an artery in the forearm is evidence that we're still very much a work in progress.
How we’re seeing black holes as never before… and a whole lot more. It was only back in the early 2000s that scientists were struggling to identify and weigh the small […]
At its biggest for the next 15 years, it’s still much smaller than the Moon. On October 6, 2020, Mars makes its closest approach to Earth until 2035. Earth orbits in […]
The young man died nearly 2,000 years ago in the volcanic eruption that buried Pompeii.
Societies aren't just engines of prosperity.
From AI to climate anxiety, youth are speaking up about mental health.
Experts on the science of giving look into whether there's another possible upside to doing good: physical attractiveness.
Humans help each other in ways animals don't dream of, but why?
A new survey also found that women executives believe imposter syndrome to be common among women in corporate America.
There has been a dramatic increase in abuse and misuse.
This wide-ranging, 13-course electrical engineering training is your next power move.
The solar system has some strange stuff in it. Learning how it ended up that way can tell us where we're going.
Sir Roger Penrose claims our Universe has been through multiple Big Bangs, with more coming — a claim that is not widely accepted within the cosmology community.