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Here are 10 physics courses you can take now with some of the best experts in the world.
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Whether the data prove you right or wrong, it's crucial to ask: what else is it telling me?
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We need to enact policies founded on solid research — more importantly, though, we have to stop suppressing research into hot topics.
Do we suffer from birth anxiety like we suffer from death anxiety?
Research found that overweight children were just as smart but not as successful.
MIT team successfully tests a new method for verification of weapons reduction.
Dominant wild silverbacks wax musical with their mouths full.
Playwright and novelist Deborah Levy on chaos and order in creative work. Also: marvelous digressions on the caterpillar and the octopus.
The shape of our Universe has long been recognized to be flat. But that isn’t the only possibility. The Universe is expanding, and goes on for farther than even our […]
The Internet Research Agency has learned that you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
Researchers find what causes the glow coming from the densest objects in our universe.
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To stay on top in the business world, you have to make sure your business model matches the times.
It’s true that we have a thermodynamic arrow of time, and entropy always increases. But that can’t explain what we perceive. One of the enormous conceptual ideas that came along […]
A tiny, perfectly preserved 3D fossil from Argentina tells us more about an early snake.
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A guide to keep conflicts from flaring up while you pass your uncle the pumpkin pie.
If an AT-AT walker (or something even larger) wanted to walk across a frozen lake, how thick would the ice have to be? Each winter, one of the most spectacular phenomena […]
Are you prone to view life as glass-half-empty? If so, don’t let it drag you down: Your day-to-day happiness level is something that was, in large part, set early in […]