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In any successful workplace, it is important to have employees and leaders who have the “people skills” that help them make better decisions and learn successfully from others. It is […]
Adam Frank and Marcelo Gleiser, founders of the popular blog, have landed at ORBITER.
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What's the difference between making it and faking it? Getting it done, no matter what.
From Memojis to revamped and improved AR, here's the most interesting and useful new features from Apple.
On Monday, the Supreme Court set aside the ruling against Jack Phillips, a baker who cited religious beliefs as the reason he refused to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding in 2012.
Starbucks is only the latest example of a very old systemic problem. Are these trainings effective?
Current climate change models are flawed when predicting the true cost to the world, new study says.
President Donald Trump wrote on Twitter on Monday that the Russia investigation is unconstitutional and that he has the right to pardon himself, even though he's "done nothing wrong!"
This is what the world will look like, 250 million years from now
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What makes a job a great place to work? A sense of equity and ownership, says Michael Bush.
A new study from the Great Recession shows that anxiety around money is not helping us. How do we stop worrying?
Gender studies are leaving the college halls and heading into the lab. Increasingly, there have been more rigorous studies into how transgender people neurologically relate to the sex they identify with rather than their biological sex.
The quest for the cause of the cosmos is an ancient quest. Neil Turok offers a fascinating new theory.
Only 5-15% of the World Ocean’s floor has been mapped. This herculean effort is set to tackle our planet’s last frontier.
NYU researchers may have finally put to rest the mystery of how speech is processed in the brain.
Do a little less in your day if you want to do a little more.
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Why invest real money in digital coin? Because the payoff a decade from now could be enormous.
And other big questions we explored on our first day at the World Science Festival.
Believe it or not, our eating habits are influenced by what music is playing and other forces that we may not be consciously aware of.