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Butter supply and life satisfaction are linked — but by causation or correlation?
The catacombs of Paris. Secret graffiti beneath NYC. The hidden cities of Cappadocia. Writer and explorer Will Hunt is your philosophical tour guide to what lies beneath.
It’s been over 100 years since Einstein, and over 300 since Newton. We’ve still got a long way to go. From measuring how objects fall on Earth to observing the motion […]
We may never have to get more than one flu shot again.
Numerous critics have called for the ban of the infamous instruction manual for violent civil disobedience.
For the Japanese in World War II, surrender was unthinkable. So unthinkable that many soldiers continued to fight even after the island nation eventually did surrender.
Anxious? Dr. Frankl suggested you take a different view of things.
The brains of two genetically edited babies born last year in China might have enhanced memory and cognition, but that doesn't mean the scientific community is pleased.
The fierce debate over participation trophies ignores a crucial fact: Children aren't idiots.
Advances in satellite imagery are shining a light.
Who were the most divisive Americans?
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The formula for resilience? Hope, grit, and amnesia.
If dark matter doesn’t interact with normal matter or light, how can it be heated up? One of the great cosmic mysteries of our time is the presence and existence of […]
A parlor-trick mystery explained at last.
The Megachile pluto is about four times the size of a honeybee.
An autistic woman, Judy Singer, coined the term ‘neurodiversity’ in her 1988 thesis as a label for the unique contribution made to the world by people whose brains are wired […]
Why are soda and ice cream each linked to violence? This article delivers the final word on what people mean by "correlation does not imply causation."