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A study finds that while musical newbies exercise the brain's so-called creative hemisphere, pros have moved on.
Many of the bathrooms uncovered at Pompeii and elsewhere were communal.
The coronavirus pandemic offers online education companies a chance to prove themselves.
USGS's 'Unified Geologic Map of the Moon' is the definitive blueprint of the lunar surface.
The Sahara is a harsh environment today. It used to be much, much, worse.
It’s one way to interpret recent X-ray data, but it conflicts with much, much better data we already have. Earlier this month, a new study came out claiming something shocking: perhaps […]
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Rather than trekking up a mountain, a more accurate metaphor for human development involves navigating the waters of a choppy sea.
Johns Hopkins University professor Susan Carnell explains the neuroscience behind eating out of boredom (and how to stop).
Carbon nanotubes embedded in leaves detect chemical signals that are produced when a plant is damaged.
Europe's border closures due to coronavirus go against a fundamental freedom enshrined in the Schengen Agreement.
Researchers decoded the love signals of lizards "spoken" through chemical signals.
With the right technology, we can continue to "flatten the curve," even as we venture out of our homes.
According to researchers at Washington State University, the answer is yes.
We know what effective teaching looks like. Implementing it can change the lives of Americans.
Charles Koch Foundation
Its record-holding galaxy is 32 billion light-years away, in a Universe that’s only 13.8 billion years old. On April 24, 2020, humanity celebrates the 30th anniversary of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. […]
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Removing the pressure of finding your "dying passion" makes it easier to connect with the "why" of your work.
Billions of dollars have been lost on custom government IT projects that were eventually canceled.
This article has been retracted.
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Being stuck at home is not as intense as being away from Earth, but there are ways to cope in either scenario.
Even if you remove everything you can from the Universe, some energy will still remain. Here’s what that means. Imagine, if you can, what it would mean to have a Universe […]