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Your next payday could be all digital.
You can be born with good genes and study hard and still not meet your potential. Your environment has a lot to do with how smart you are.
Andrew Yang argues that the Alaska Permanent Fund shows the path to implementing a nationwide universal basic income.
What are the plans, and are they enough?
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Don't underestimate the power of play when it comes to problem-solving.
Chairman of JetBlue Joel Peterson considers trust, “smart” trust, a key element in a successful organization. Where there’s trust, a company is free to become a whole greater than the […]
Barbara Tversky takes an outdated idea to task in Mind in Motion.
If you thought that diamonds were the hardest things of all, this will have you thinking again. Carbon is one of the most fascinating elements in all of nature, with chemical […]
An astrobiologist joins a like-minded global community in ramping up the search.
The surprising results come from a new GLAAD survey.
Future cancer research may come from studying antler growth.
The more we learn about the microbiome, the more the pieces are fitting together.
We're going to have to reckon with our workweek sooner than later.
At the core of the largest star-forming region of the Local Group sits the biggest star we know of. Mass is the single most important astronomical property in determining the lives […]
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Here's how we stop a health crisis before it wreaks havoc on us.
Harvard psychologists discover why we dislike the people who deliver bad news.
If life exists on Mars, there's a good chance it's related to us, say researchers.
Americans' acceptance and desire of "dad bod" is increasing every year.
If loneliness is a "disease," is this one of the complications?