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Hannah Rousey won a $1000 scholarship for college from a bottled water company. Here's why she turned it down.
In the past six years, Hungary has gone from democracy to extreme conservatism. Can this happen elsewhere?
Om nom nom nom nom… “That what wrong with the media today. All they have is questions, questions, questions. They never have cookies.” –Cookie Monster When most people think of black […]
Researchers present what they’ve learned now that they can read the tiny text inside the Antikythera mechanism.
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The story of O.J. Simpson continues to explore American culture in a unique way. Simpson, who always distanced himself from his blackness, became a national referendum on race relations.
Implanting false memories could cure Alzheimer’s, PTSD, and depression. It could also make scapegoating easier, allow for witness tampering, or give those under a brutal dictatorship false patriotism.
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We have typically defined addiction as needing a substance to function normally, but this ignores crucial psychological qualities of addiction. A new and better definition has arrived, says Maia Szalavitz.
Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy, a gun-control advocate whose home state saw the massacre of 20 school children at Sandy Hook Elementary, has launched a surprise filibuster on the floor of the Senate.
It’s the most mysterious “stuff” our Universe has. So why are we so sure it’s real? “The Universe is made mostly of dark matter and dark energy, and we don’t know […]
United Egg Producers agree to eliminate male chick culling by switching to in-ovo terminations.
American commuters have different habits and spend a different portion of their income on car commuting than their counterparts in other developed nations.
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Everything we thought we knew about female sexual desire is being overturned. Following from experiments, what we think turns us on and what actually excites us are two different things.
The evolution of driving might disconnect us from each other even more.
STEM employers say they are looking for more qualified applicants than they can find, but teens are growing less and less interested in science. What if the way we teach science is the issue?
As horrific as the Orlando Massacre was, we must not forget the Wounded Knee Massacre, the single worst mass shooting in U.S. history.
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“What we perceive as color — what we perceive as light — corresponds to a very narrow band of frequencies, out of an infinite continuum," says Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek.
The most distant world ever imaged by fly-by reveals a richer terrain than anyone ever expected. “The cosmic game changed forever in 1992. Before then, logic told us that there […]
Actors try to make sense out of an AI-written screenplay in the movie Sunspring.
A new carbon capture technique could help us take carbon dioxide out of the air… for good.
A number of scientific studies find the traits shared by intelligent people.