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Changing an unhealthy habit depends a lot on your belief that you can do it, something psychologists call self-efficacy. Take smoking, for example. Your belief that you are capable of […]
Mike Hughes finally launched his homemade rocket 1,875 feet into the sky. Now, the 61-year-old has plans to build another rocket to go even higher…
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From La Rinconada in Peru to South Africa's deepest mines: the quest for gold drives people to the greatest heights and depths on Earth.
With hundreds of billions of stars burning bright, ‘dead’ seems like a bit of an exaggeration. But every galaxy is headed for this fate, including ours. As long as a […]
What do hot dogs, the Vatican, and the Large Hadron Collider have in common? They're all in our random fact roundup where we bring you some favorite facts about three subjects.
He was one of the most intelligent men on the planet. But he had a knack for making people laugh, and it helped him spread his message of science and discovery.
Forty percent of Americans get less than seven hours of sleep per night. But there's another key ingredient we're missing: dreams.
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Geobiologist Hope Jahren explains why knowing your legal protections is probably more useful than attending another behavioral seminar on avoiding harassment.
The non-lethal weapons lab of the military unveils a futuristic weapon that can create speech and heat out of thin air dozens of miles away.
Several things in nature go faster than the speed of light, without challenging general relativity.
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Ever had an argument that never ends? There's a reason for that, says psychotherapist Esther Perel.
Turns out that laws (already in action in 22 states) that don't allow violent people to own firearms actually lower homicides.
It's a dubious honor, but humanity has managed to amass a giant trash mass about twice the size of Texas, or three times the size of France, or about 1,600 miles.
A look at the United States gender gap in 2018 shows that no matter how it’s calculated, it’s still a problem.
We know that it’s ‘the red planet’ because of the iron in its soil. But why, with such a thin, carbon dioxide atmosphere, is the martian sky so red and bright? […]
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Here's how looking down at 4 billion years of Earth's history changes you.
After concerns over data security, Elon Musk has elected to remove his companies from Facebook entirely.
Stephen Hawking had pinned his hopes on ‘M-theory’ to fully explain the universe – here’s what it is
During the second string revolution, in 1995, physicists proposed that the five consistent string theories are actually only different faces of a unique theory.
Free-market fans often fail to see how self-interest can create diseased-market games. Robert Frank helps diagnose American healthcare's deadly trillion-dollar disease.