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Facing a shortage of medical resources, doctors in the U.S. may have to make difficult moral decisions over how to allocate care.
A new study shows the benefits of calorie restriction. Never has such advice been more needed.
It's never too late to start strengthening your brain.
And why social distancing, isolation, and sheltering-in-place are so effective, but only if we do them early enough. In any biological system, if you put a living organism into an environment […]
Because geocaches are always hidden out of sight, players often have to behave in out-of-the-ordinary ways to reach them.
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Sometimes, the more understated you are, the more positively you'll be received.
Retail therapy has been proven to make us happier, but is there a catch?
A new study found that practicing mindfulness can lower feelings of paranoia.
Lawrence "Larry" Brilliant, an American epidemiologist who helped eradicate smallpox, warned about the inevitability of a global pandemic in a now-famous 2006 TED Talk.
Washing your hands with soap and water can help protect against the coronavirus. But only if you do it correctly.
The Buddha wasn't concerned with transcendence, but rather fully embodying the moment.
A NASA-sponsored competition asks participants to improve the design of a bucket drum for moon excavation.
And if you have a friend at the same longitude, you can even measure its circumference. This year’s equinox, on March 19/20 of 2020 (longitude-dependent), is Earth’s earliest in 124 […]
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It takes more than a good idea to land a shark as a business partner.
Inequality from the Recession has a lot to do with how the government designed its response.
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Play and experimentation are the keys to creativity and innovation.
And the first sci-fi weapon the Space Force gets is….a device to scramble communications?
Researchers figure out the infectious periods of coronavirus on cardboard, metal and plastic.
Our remarkable olfactory senses are modeled in a new research chip.
You’d have to throw out a lot of known physics for this to even be a possibility. Here’s why. It’s an undeniable scientific fact that dark matter must exist in order […]