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We may not find Klingons, but what we do find will blow our terrestrial minds.
It took more than 9 billion years for Earth to form: the only known planet housing life. But it could have happened much, much sooner. The cosmic story that unfolded following […]
There is a lot of hope in the healing powers of CBD. Unfortunately there's way more hype.
Harvard Business Review recently published a report showing how Americans prioritize meaning in the workplace.
Freedom and democracy are great, but our understanding of what those things are has changed a lot since we came up with them.
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Sean Hannity took the stage at a rally for President Donald Trump Monday night and delivered a short, supportive speech.
The barrier to solar energy has always been storage. Now, bottled sunshine has a shelf-life of 18 years.
It's an asteroid, it's a comet, it's actually a spacecraft?
The Royole Corporation beat Samsung to the punch when it recently released the world's first commercially available folding smartphone.
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Using terrifying language when talking about climate change may be scaring people into inaction.
A perspective from Brother Guy Consolmagno, astronomer and theologian.
Your fate is only rarely determined at birth. Ultimately, every star has a chance to get there. Three times in the past 1,000 years, a portion of humanity has looked up […]
Famously unusual case studies that perplexed psychologists.
Fox News, NBC, Facebook and CNN have all stopped airing the commercial, which some critics have labelled as inflammatory and racist.
As long as we fail to name capitalism as a key cause of mass extinction, we will remain powerless to break its tragic story.
Researchers found that Olympic silver medalists lived longer and earned more than gold medalists, which begs the question of what matters: your success, or how you respond to it.
The renowned linguist and controversial political critic said President Donald Trump is choosing to race toward the catastrophes of climate change.