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It's time to address the gorilla in the room, and the high percentage of his income he's spending to rent it.
A new study reveals who is searching online for ADHD drugs, and the relaxed attitude toward "study drug" abuse.
A new study suggests that news reports of extreme weather build a dangerous tolerance for risk-taking.
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You never know who your intern will become.
For the 70 million people who speak with their hands.
Crossing the generational divide.
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The man in red has a challenge for everyone's favorite Science Guy.
Science is the best tool we have for predicting the future. Here’s what the next year ought to bring. “For last year’s words belong to last year’s language And next year’s […]
These stars are too hot and blue for their age, and the leading theory just got a strike against it. “Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work […]
How China's new social credit system could lead to an Orwellian future.
Both are beautiful gifts, but only one is a beautiful learning experience. “The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie […]
There is a lot of hypocrisy in the way Naomi Oreskes attacks four renowned climate scientists.
Forensic anthropologist Richard Neave has given us the most accurate portrayal of Jesus to date. This still will not change the ways we misrepresent his identity.
Learning how to code will get you a job and a salary. More importantly, it allows you the freedom of understanding that you can solve problems that seem overwhelming.
It’s rare to find a galaxy where the arms wrap around even a full 360 degrees. But after billions of years, why is that? “The farther we peer into space, the […]
We're teaching robots to learn in all kinds of new ways.
President Barack Obama is giving away a special holiday gift to inmates.
A concern with quiet students' well-being should not push us back to outdated educational models.
How the “hierarchy problem,” or why gravity is so much weaker than everything else, might be the key to the entire Universe. “I just think too many nice things have […]
It's the rebels among us that change the world.