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White-nose syndrome is nearly as lethal to bats as the Black Plague was for humans.
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How you talk to people with drug addiction might save their life.
This is what we’ve learned from first object ever discovered to enter our Solar System from interstellar space. Billions of years ago, our Solar System was an extraordinarily different place […]
A conversation with Sabine Hossenfelder.
Arranged marriages and Western romantic practices have more in common than we might think.
New research on the public's opinion about genetically modified foods illustrates an alarming cognitive bias.
A new report says there's not as much evidence of physical harm as you might think.
Business experts recommend transparency as a way to strengthen engagement by keeping employees in touch with the meaning and value of their work, and to help hold decision-makers accountable for […]
China's Chang'e 4 biosphere experiment marks a first for humankind.
The Harvard psychologist loves reading authors' rules for writing. Here are his own.
Stress affects everyone, but there's something you can do about it.
Florida researchers offer schools a simple message: Send home report cards earlier in the week.
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Hold the press… college might be a bad idea. Unless we change something.
On January 20/21, half of Earth will experience a total lunar eclipse. For the first time in 19 years, this includes all of North and South America. When the Sun, Earth, […]
It marks a first for the U.S., where some 49,000 people died from opioids in 2018.
There's a difference between having a harmonious passion and an obsessive one.
Regenerative capitalism challenges the belief that business success and environmental concerns are inherently at odds.