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Eating a doughnut isn't the only way you can go wrong on the keto diet.
How important is it to consider a romantic partner's genetic profile before getting married?
What does your phone know about you?
The story of that one time a U.S. city was run by a Soviet, and what it was like to live in it.
North Korea's Great Leader would rather not fly for his second summit with Trump – but the trip is also a political message to China.
New research from the University of Buffalo makes the case for the smartphone.
Turns out pushups are more telling than treadmill tests when it comes to cardiovascular health.
We can see light from the atoms in the Universe before the first stars form. And no, I don’t mean from the CMB! After the Big Bang, it took only a […]
Happy birthday to Pluto, discovered on this day in 1930. Pluto, first discovered in 1930, was no more than a distant dot in our most powerful telescopes. Clyde Tombaugh’s original images […]
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Companies refer to like-minded strangers when recommending products to you.
A new study of thousands links right-wing authoritarian attitudes and feeling one's life is more meaningful.
Mindy Kaling, Taylor Swift, Oprah Winfrey, and more have learned a lot along the way.
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The technology is poised to change how many companies operate.
A new study finds even simple, easy, appearance alterations fool people
A new study outlines why the tobacco and coal industries warrant "corporate death sentences."
Scientists examined data from 20 years ago to reach a startling new conclusion.
It’s a rare occasion for orbits to align so perfectly. Enjoy the sights this Tuesday. On Tuesday, February 19th, the Moon will reach perigee, its closest point of approach to planet […]
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.
