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Every marriage’s disintegration is marked by the same four warning signs that researchers John and Julie Gottman can spot before a couple finishes their first sentence.

It's both easier and more beneficial than you may think.

Communication is hard. Jefferson Fisher reminds us that no matter what you need to say, say it with control, say it with confidence, and say it to connect.

Time isn't the same for everyone, even on Earth. Flying around the world gave Einstein the ultimate test. No one is immune from relativity.

Science used to be broad because so few people could afford to do it. Now that more people can participate, the structures need to evolve too. Philosopher Alan Love explains.

We assume there's no preferred frame of reference in the Universe, and that light behaves the same in all directions. What if we're wrong?

The medicines already existed. The challenge was reaching people in time. Muso’s model of proactive community healthcare is showing what becomes possible when care moves closer to families.

Leadership isn't defined only by the biggest moments we face. It's shaped in the moments between them.

We've now found many "conjoined" objects in the asteroid and Kuiper belts, including the first contact trinary, Nysa. What does it all mean?

On Earth's surface, we accelerate at 1g: 9.8m/s². In orbit, the acceleration is only slightly less. So why, then, are astronauts weightless?

Be alert and be ready to jump.

Newton thought that gravitation would happen instantly, propagating at infinite speeds. Einstein showed otherwise; gravity isn't instant.

Lisa Damour breaks down why chasing a permanent state of calm backfires, why naming an emotion can shrink it, and why "feeling bad" can sometimes be the clearest sign of mental health rather than its absence.

A good decision can blow up, and a terrible one can pay off.

At a fundamental level, nobody knows whether gravity is truly quantum in nature. A novel experiment strongly hints that it is.

How do you tell when intuition is offering you reliable information?

Our ability to build machine intelligence has outrun our ability to understand it. Professor Alan Love, director of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science, thinks biology can help close that gap.

Today, the world's largest operating optical telescope is 10.4 meters in diameter. These 3 facilities will lead astronomy's next generation.

The artistic and the mathematical mind are not so far apart.

Getting sick shouldn’t cost you everything. In parts of West Africa, it no longer does. Muso has built a collaborative healthcare model that reaches patients within 24 hours, for free — and now governments are scaling it themselves.