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We think of ourselves as rational beings, but our cognitive biases often mean our decisions are based on instincts and emotions. Here are five times cognitive biases pushed Americans to advance foreign policies that stood against the country’s best interests.

Omarosa Manigault Newman, a former senior aide to President Donald Trump, says she’s recorded multiple secret audio tapes at the White House, including one of her firing by Chief of Staff John Kelly.

Why do great minds argue for positions we find repulsive? Today, we find out why Robert Nozick was a libertarian.

We know not getting enough sleep is bad for us, this study gives us yet another reason to get a few more hours in.

If we want to reach for the stars, we have to start in our own backyard. By looking at the sky alone, we can see the apparent, angular sizes of […]

Reddit can reveal a lot, depending on how you interpret the data.

Sometimes lacking proper language is just a failure of imagination.

China is investing a gargantuan amount of money in Africa, but it's leaving many in the global community concerned as to why.

Like it or not, agreements made between hackers in Germany, Prague, and elsewhere could reconfigure the economy... and a frightening new world.

The speed of death isn't as instantaneous as you may think.

You've probably seen it hanging around. But how did it get there? And can we live there?

People in the West are constantly encouraged to sleep less and accomplish more. But the science behind sleep deprivation shows why that's a terrible idea.

Englishman Andy Pardy is traveling 18,000 miles (30,000 km) across Europe this summer to make a continent-sized political statement

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft taught us more than we ever imagined about Saturn. Could we do something similar for Uranus and Neptune? From where we are in the Solar System, looking out […]

The pool of things that "AI Can't Do" appears to be steadily shrinking.

A new study shows that some men's reaction to sex is not what you'd expect, resulting in a condition previously observed in women.

A new approach to fighting the opioid crisis involves sending letters to doctors after their patients overdose on prescription drugs.

This is an extremely rare find; only three similar fossils have been found in the world.

The Swift-Tuttle comet is the source of the lovely Perseid meteor shower each August. It’s also getting closer and closer, making it "the single most dangerous object known to humanity."

The time has come for Space Force, Vice President Pence told an audience at the Pentagon on Thursday.