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Ketamine is showing promise in alleviating suicidal thoughts.
The first list of antidepressant food scores restructures the "standard" American diet.
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Why this $600 million business isn't about money.
Galaxies are found uniformly everywhere in the Universe, except in the Milky Way’s plane. Here’s why. From the time of their very first discovery, the Universe’s grand spirals have puzzled astronomers. […]
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Populism: The "overnight" problem 40 years in the making
The Dalai Lama is important, so important that he might decide not to come back after his next death.
What do the "seduction movement," the Virginia Tech shooter, and the Asian-American experience have in common? Wesley Yang thinks and writes with devastating clarity about loneliness, invisibility, and the incoherence of American life.
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Opinion ruined journalism and Facebook killed truth—but there's a way to make it right.
Charles Koch Foundation
We can go to deeper and deeper levels, finding more fundamental quantities as we do. But is there a truly fundamental quantity? What is the Universe, at a fundamental level, […]
Anchorage was rocked by back-to-back earthquakes on Friday morning, prompting a tsunami warning.
There are many ways to posit the fundamental nature of reality.
It's likely one of the biggest data breaches in corporate history.
A trio of scientists from Harvard hopes to do this in 2019.
Over 67,000 trials by the Color Guard can't be wrong.
In order to build a second Earth, we need to look at how the first one was made.
Baby boomers seem to have had an advantage in nearly every financial metric compared to millennials, according to a new study from the Federal Reserve.
As this typewritten map shows, constraints can be freeing.
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America treats the world like a board game. That's a problem.
If particles weren’t also waves, the Sun would never achieve nuclear fusion. Without quantum mechanics, life on Earth would never have come to exist. The greatest source of newly-produced energy in […]