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Fasting is trending, yet it's also been prescribed for thousands of years. Does the science on the Fasting Mimicking Diet (FMD) hold up?
The part of your brain responsible for ASMR catalogs music, and appears to be a stronghold against Alzheimer's and dementia.
Prince William and Kate Middleton have welcomed their third child to the royal family. Find out where the new royal baby falls in the line of succession to the throne.
Using a machine-learning system known as a deep neural network, MIT researchers have created the first model that can identify a musical genre just like a human would.
The answer can give us an indication of where our universe is headed and how it might end.
If you go down to the woods today you'll be sure of a big surprise… (possible) death by caterpillar!
The NFL is known predominantly for its players’ display of athletic prowess. But you’d be surprised to know that many of these same players are incredibly smart. Here are some of the smartest NFL players ever to have graced the league.
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Don't take the Bible so seriously, says religious scholar and fully interesting guy Rob Bell.
We've always used media as a means of framing reality. How will this affect our relationship with VR?
We see matter, but not antimatter, in our Universe. Could black holes be the answer? One of the greatest cosmic puzzles in our entire Universe is why there’s so much more […]
Is there a way to join an infamous secret society like the Illuminati or Skull and Bones? Or even Disney's secret supper club within Disneyland?
You are who you are because of your environment. What happens in a virtual world in an environment created by another mind?
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Here's how immersive virtual reality experiences can help us save animals, the planet and each other.
Scientists have replicated Albert Einstein's spooky action at a distance on a massive scale—well, for the quantum world, anyway.
Two studies, summing up almost 5,000 participants, point to an interesting link between education and conspiracy theories.
The leaders of North and South Korea vowed to bring peace to the region, setting an optimistic tone ahead of President Donald Trump's upcoming meeting with Kim Jong Un.