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A good apology can do great things. A bad one can cause trouble. Know the difference.
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How can curriculum planners refresh learning in the wake of COVID-19?
A specialized MRI sensor reveals the neurotransmitter's influence on neural activity throughout the brain.
Light therapy might help your natural circadian rhythm and even stave off seasonal depression.
Clinical trials by Janssen Pharmaceuticals showed troubling results.
Volunteering can feel great and make good things happen. Now we know it promotes your health too.
We’re looking back farther in time than ever before. Here’s what we’re finding. Even today, the Universe is forming enormous numbers of new stars: from various nebulae throughout our galaxy to […]
It happened 13.8 billion years ago, so why hasn’t the radiation all passed over us by now? For the past 13.8 billion years, our Universe has been expanding, cooling, and gravitating. […]
A massive Dating.com study reveals just how important politics are in the dating world right now.
Could better teaching practices make paying attention easier for everyone?
Ground-penetrating radar allows the non-invasive virtual excavation of Falerii Novi.
What better way to understand the world around us than through jokes?
They said the “missing half” of the Universe’s matter was just found. But what they found barely makes a dent to the big picture. When we look up into the great […]
With 45% of recent college graduates under or unemployed, it's time to explore new solutions.
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A conspiracy theory that 90 percent of the world's population will be killed off spreads widely on pandemic fears.
Bastet was the daughter of the sun. The ancient Egyptian goddess was originally a fierce lioness warrior—a strong woman with the head of a big cat. Over time, her image […]
Researchers are making progress in the effort to develop safe and practical supernumerary robotic limbs.
Watch Slavoj Žižek's live interview with Big Think, moderated by Samo Burja.
New book focuses on some of the world's most peculiar borderlines.
The origin of the 3rd element on the periodic table was one of the great cosmic mysteries. We just solved it. How did we form the elements that pervade the Universe […]