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An Irish Catholic priest thinks we should stop using the word "Christmas" and replace it with another word.
Predatory journals are so busy scamming scholars that seven big ones appointed a dog posing as a PhD to review submissions.
One type of dog in particular is linked with the lowest rates of cardiovascular disease in their human pals.
Physicists propose a new kind of space structure that can allow information to escape from black holes.
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai has announced a proposal to repeal net neutrality regulations set forth by the Obama administration in 2015.
Student loan debt doesn’t make you undateable. How you handle it might.
It's not only a lack of sleep that's hurting us. A lack of dreaming might point to health problems.
Geologists find that when the earth’s spin slows as it has recently, major earthquake activity follows.
Why do scientists look down on philosophers? And are they right to do so?
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Digital disruptions have never been more intrusive, making concentration and focus more important than ever. Learning to say "no" to distractions has a good historical track record.
And you don’t even need a Delorean at 88 MPH. It’s one of the greatest tropes in movies, literature, and television shows: the idea that we could travel back in time […]
Here's the first evidence to challenge the "fastest sperm" narrative.
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It doesn't matter if negative stereotypes are false. They still do damage.
George Bernard Shaw quipped that a rich man ‘does not really care whether his money does good or not, provided he finds his conscience eased and his social status improved by giving it away’. Was he right?
An Ivy League education without the Ivy League price tag.
Duke University researchers found that stimulating brain regions dealing with abstract reasoning and cognitive flexibility alleviate anxiety and depression.
Here are four great brains from great minds, and how they differ from yours.
Every day, you and your coworkers make countless decisions and tackle numerous problems. We know that many of these decisions or problems are so tacit that we don’t even consider […]