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These results may someday offer doctors an early warning biomarker for heart disease.
The idea is just as ‘crazy’ as Einstein telling us that time slows down at high speeds, or Darwin saying that our ancestors were apes.
A new survey reveals how satisfied employees of different tech companies are with their pay and whether they'd like to leave.
North Korea has a long history of making bellicose threats that defy global norms. So does that mean the country's leaders are irrational, and will act irrationally?
The discovery of the first-ever asteroid to arrive from interstellar space is full of lessons for us all. On October 19th, astronomers discovered an objectunlike any other we’d seen before: a […]
Jellyfish have their tentacles all tangled up in our lives in ways we’re only dimly aware of.
Virtually every organization engages in some form of employee development and training. There are so many obvious benefits to training, such as ensuring that employees have specific skills or understand […]
There are plenty of questions we don’t know the answer to. With quantum gravity, they might be solved! This article is written by Sabine Hossenfelder. Sabine is a theoretical physicist specialized […]
Researchers tracked academic achievement, social cognition, executive function, and creativity in a longitudinal study of kids across the socioeconomic spectrum.
Here’s the number one factor for whether an organization is a success or a failure.
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When it comes to ISIS, terrorism, and global and domestic instability, America has been its own worst enemy.
In The Hacking of the American Mind, Robert Lustig holds up a much needed mirror to our consumption habits.
The U.S. has been steadily losing its religion for decades — but that trend might ramp up significantly in the years to come.
Men are barbarians, while women are civilizing. Or at least, that's how the stereotype goes.
The results of two human clinical trials involving elderly patients suffering from frailty showed no adverse side effects and “remarkable” physical improvement.
Tesla Motors released updated plans for when its cars will be fully self-driving.
Ramen isn't going to be the next superfood, but it's a little better than before.
For the first time, I genuinely enjoyed the new series. There’s been one question that’s bothered me in every episode since Star Trek: Discovery began: why would anyone want to be […]
Does this mean they can read your mind against your will?
A supervised learning algorithm can predict clinical depression much earlier and more accurately than trained health professionals.