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When asked if they had "many opportunities" to find success in their careers, 70% of the young people surveyed said "yes".
The results of this study may help scientists devise new drugs for pain and nicotine addiction.
Denying the possibility of immoral actions may be the very basis of our society.
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Americans are inherently a little crazy. But now the crazy is being enabled by politicians in the White House and by the internet. How exactly did it get so bad?
Socrates: what a dummy.
Tesla founder Elon Musk is in talks with the governor of Puerto Rico to help rebuild the island’s power grid using Tesla technologies.
Why not just put your detectors in place of a giant mirror? “Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.” –Yousuf […]
Scientists discover that ice in space bubbles, pops, and flows.
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Heaven is a place on earth, says a major American thinker. And a certain awesome '80s pop song.
A number of US jurisdictions are starting to keep animal abuser registries, sparking a debate.
Feversham Academy in Bradford, England has profoundly improved its students’ performance by adding a lot more music to their curriculum.
Following 14,000 people since the 1940s, these cohort studies offer insights into parenting, education, health, and the impact of poverty.
For thousands of years, all over the world, we've told tales of monsters and the undead. Why? Aaron Mahnke, creator of the 'Lore' podcast, on the hunger for mystery.
Even though we’ve never seen them, here’s what we already know. “Suddenly whole new programs open up, things you can do that you could never do before. It’d be great scientifically, […]
Researchers at MIT and Harvard Medical School have developed a tattoo ink that could potentially be used to monitor medical conditions, with ink that changes in response to physical conditions.
One of inflation’s cofounders has turned his back on the idea. But practically no one else is following him. Is he right? This article was written by Sabine Hossenfelder. Sabine is […]
This behavior was witnessed in boys but not girls.
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Here's how the government improves your life without you knowing it.
Acupuncture has a bad rap in the scientific community, but can modern brain scanning techniques redeem it?
Chemists are surprised to find that berkelium electrons seem to live outside of quantum mechanics.