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Canadian researchers have successfully reconstructed faces from data in brain scans.
"Enforcing language norms is a way of enforcing power structures."
The scientists have traced the signals to just 180 million years after the Big Bang, making the detection the earliest evidence of hydrogen yet observed.
If the neural crest hypothesis is correct, humans are the first domesticated animals. But who, or what, tamed us?
“Earth to lunar surface… my, you’re looking very high definition today!”
They say there’s a singularity, but must that be true? When you fall inside the event horizon of a black hole, there’s no escaping, no matter what you do or how […]
Images taken 20 years apart show the rate of evaporation, and they’ll take much more than mere thousands of years to destroy. In 1995, the Hubble Space Telescope snapped one of […]
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Yale professor Amy Chua on the identity of nations, why hardened tribes end up in civil wars, and why you can't just replace dictators with democracy.
Imagining ourselves as no longer existing is, for most of us, terrifying. Buddhism may offer some reassurance.
The American public is split on whether to provide a “safety net” to workers displaced by advancements in artificial intelligence.
“The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.” — Publius Syrus.
How do we even define mental illness?
What is it that separates an average-performing employee from a truly exceptional employee? While there are many things that can set one employee apart from the rest in terms of […]
Is there a connection between mental health and gun violence? Here's what the experts think and the stats show.
A major clinical trial finds that diet quality beats calorie counting for the best weight loss strategy.
Every country is unique—but only America is extraordinary
There are no punches to pull here. If America believes in science, research, or basic truths about the Universe, we cannot cancel this mission. Last week, the White House released their […]
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Pop quiz! Which NASA mission has been most critical to humanity? (Hint: it's not the Moon landing.)
God has a twitter account, and it is full of hilarity as well as deep insights.
A number of studies show that various forms of exercise help prevent dementia as we age.