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Cephalopods like the octopus could have originated from outside of our solar system, possibly coming to Earth as hitchhikers frozen inside comets and meteors.
Specific self-driving car systems are now being developed for urban and rural settings.
In a sense, a proton acts very much like a star.
Why do we work for five days and then take two days off? The answer might surprise you.
Google's recent AI technology that can mimic humans is raising ethical concerns.
West Virginia and Mississippi are at the bottom of the educational attainment table and Massachusetts is the state with the highest share of Bachelor's degree holders – beaten only by the District of Columbia
Disney has plans to make the Star Wars galaxy the setting for the widespread introduction of virtual reality and augmented reality to the public at large.
Scientists are investigating whether it’s possible to give modern elephants an ancient boost by reviving woolly mammoth DNA—all to curb climate change.
Humans are much more dangerous to spiders than vice versa.
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Imagine the increased productivity, efficiency, and overall success that would result if all of the employees and managers within your organization would make better decisions on a daily basis. This […]
If you go all the way back to where neutral atoms first formed, you can see the cosmic microwave background. Buried in the details is the Universe’s first evidence for […]
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Think getting along with people that are nothing like you is hard? Here’s how astronauts do it, 254 miles above Earth on the ISS.
Singing increases breathing control and lung capacity, can improve your health, and releases the happy hormone.
Northwestern scientists believe they may have a way of wiping out heart disease for good.
A set of new studies that used large-scale computer simulations found that life might be more common throughout other universes than previously thought.
Podcast host Robert Wright's lively conversation with the Harvard psychologist.
Yanny/Laurel is the blue dress vs. gold dress of 2018. Kinda.
From what we know about the young prince and actress, how does the future look for their relationship based on psychological studies of successful marriages?
A new report from data company Wealth-X shows that the world’s billionaires enjoyed a sharp increase both in number and wealth over the past year.