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Another week, another thrilling installment of our Comment of the Week feature with handpicked favorites from our Facebook page. 

A study finds that happen music enhances divergent thinking, and thus, creativity.

The strategy of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) that kept the world safe for over 50 years may no longer matter in the modern world.

The results have implications for consumers, educators, and business people.   

We've heard it before: Artificial Intelligence is coming to take our jobs. But is it really their fault, or the company that can't figure out how to create new ones?

Weatherman Alan Sealls of WKRG in Mobile, Alabama knows how to explain Hurricane Irma.

Scientists discover that humans are still evolving, with natural selection weeding out certain diseases.

Scientists in Japan have discovered why yawning is so contagious.

It isn’t just supernovae or neutron star collisions that make the heaviest elements. The physics might surprise you! “Comrades, this man has a nice smile, but he’s got iron teeth.” –Andrei A. […]

More modern cars are easier to hack. So are pacemakers and other medical devices. What does that mean for the future?

The first pop album composed and produced by AI, and Taryn Southern.

There are four main stages. Each has its own particular set of advancements and challenges.   

Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Author Salman Rushdie on the secret life of cities and so much more. 

Pretty sure nobody has ever attempted this

New research suggests that whale stranding are the result of the navigational mistakes cause by the same magnetic anomalies that produce the aurora borealis.

Caffeine makes us feel more awake but also decreases our ability to taste sweetness

How the gravitational Casimir effect might cause our Universe’s accelerated expansion, without any new physics at all. “For although it is certainly true that quantitative measurements are of great importance, it […]

All science begins with a leap of intuition, says Richard Dawkins, but we can only ever find objective truths by knowing when to let evidence take over from emotion.

John Steinbeck, Kurt Vonnegut, and Maya Angelou all had different approaches to writing. Here's some of their best advice.