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Shark Tank’s Robert Herjavec breaks down why the traditional idea of mentorship is not only outdated, but actively getting in the way of your growth.
Is dark energy evolving with at least 99.99% confidence? Despite the quality of recent data, scientists have every reason to be skeptical.
The ozone hole was going to destroy life as we know it, but an unprecedented global effort fixed the problem.
Long-lived companies show that resilience comes not from individual toughness, but from the strength of the systems around us.
Cognitive flexibility, opportunistic survival, and social cooperation have allowed rats to thrive in conditions that wipe out other species.
What a fragile flower can teach us about resilience, death, and becoming someone new.
A day in the Sierra Nevada with Tommy Caldwell reveals how pain, trauma, and “elective hardship” became the foundation of his fortitude.
Instead of hauling heavy building materials across space, future astronauts may grow fungal shelters from spores, waste, and local regolith.
A broken laptop hinge revealed a broader shift in how modern products are designed, sold, and owned
When can a kid play outside alone? Two parents, one stranger, and the state collide.
AI is unlocking unprecedented capabilities — and exposing new vulnerabilities just as quickly.
We’ve populated low-Earth orbit with satellites in record time — now we have to figure out how to keep it safe.
Long-debunked conspiracies don’t disappear—they evolve and thrive in the age of algorithms.
When applied blindly, resilience can do real harm to our health and our ability to change broken systems.
When America lost access to German dyes, the crisis revealed a startling truth: color was chemical, tactical, and essential to warfare.
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Neurologist Richard Cytowic has spent decades studying synesthesia, the phenomenon where one sense involuntarily triggers another.
In a 13.8 billion year old Universe, a few seconds hardly seems like it matters. But these minuscule changes sure do add up over time.
Most massive galaxies are spiral or elliptical shaped. But peculiar galaxies showcase the beautiful violence that helps explain our cosmos.
Neuroscientist Christof Koch on why reflective self-consciousness separates us from intelligent machines.
Once land plants, seagrasses staged one of evolution’s boldest reversals — returning to the ocean and reinventing their biology to thrive beneath the waves.