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Whether you're speaking at a wedding or your own TED Talk, here's how you can make the experience a little less harrowing.
About 97.5 percent of people who develop symptoms will do so within 11.5 days, according to the new study.
Winston Churchill had a secret army, and bunkers like this would have hidden them during a German invasion.
As time goes on, every galaxy beyond our local group will speed away from us faster and faster. And yet, more will keep appearing. The farther away a galaxy is […]
In classical liberal philosophy, individual pursuit of happiness is made possible by a framework of law.
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Studies have shown that dominant sexual activity can often boost your work ethic several days after a sexual experience.
Everyone wants to predict who will win the 2020 presidential election. Here are 2 misconceptions to bust so people don't proclaim the death of data like they did in 2016.
After the Big Bang, merging supermassive black holes are unparalleled. Here’s how we’ll find the first one. Last week, NASA’s Chandra X-ray observatory made history by announcing the most energetic explosive […]
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These three tactics will help you focus on the task at hand.
"One way the internet distorts our picture of ourselves is by feeding the human tendency to overestimate our knowledge of how the world works," writes philosophy professor Michael Patrick Lynch.
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Stock markets may be plummeting, but that doesn't mean the spread of COVID-19 is hurting everyone's bottom line.
A black hole punched a hole 15 Milky Ways across in a galaxy cluster’s gas, by far the largest ‘kaboom’ ever seen. The Universe, everywhere we look, is full of cataclysmic […]