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How can we track the spread of COVID-19 where testing is not widely available? How can global health be improved by innovation and cooperation? Over the last few years, Kinsa […]
Ad Fontes Media wants to educate readers on where to find reliable sources of news and lessen the heat from the political flame wars.
NASA’s New Horizons is the most distant technologically advanced observatory ever. And that makes all the difference. When you look at an object that’s very distant from you, how well […]
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Learn how to negotiate like a shark. Here are Shark Tank investor Daymond John's tips for powerful communication.
Scientifically, it's referred to as 'cancer-related cognitive impairment' or 'chemotherapy-related cognitive dysfunction'.
A clean work space, plants, and putting on the right pants all make working from home easier, according to science.
Unfortunately, it's getting easier to predict what might happen to cryptocurrencies when the economy takes a nosedive.
A new finding suggests Neanderthals were far from the big dumb brutes we make them out to be.
Researchers at UCSF have trained an algorithm to parse meaning from neural activity.
While our world is in a period of indefinite stasis, people’s needs aren’t. Now is the time to become positive disruptors, creating the transformations that need to happen to make […]
Ending social distancing won’t only make us sicker, but will tank the health care industry in the process. The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic continues to spread around the world. As of today, […]
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While we might not love the idea of deadlines, they can be cause for some of our greatest creative work.
Device for harnessing terahertz radiation might enable self-powering implants, cellphones, other portable electronics.
How do we make sense of an inflection point as we’re living it? How do we build more resilience into ourselves and our systems moving forward? In this interactive session, […]
Creators of the popular protein-folding game, Foldit, are seeking help to design a treatment for COVID-19.
Researchers documented the most common negative side effects of smoking weed, and who might be most susceptible.
Video meetings on the popular platform don't seem to offer end-to-end encryption as advertised.
The response to the pandemic illustrates five actions we can take to address the global climate change crisis.
How disrupted supply chains and angry sellers could hurt the e-commerce giant.
The combination of charge conjugation, parity, and time-reversal symmetry is known as CPT. And it must never be broken. Ever. The ultimate goal of physics is to accurately describe, as precisely […]