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A study finds that conflicting points of view are more likely to lead to dehumanizing others if they're written and not spoken.

Here's why coding skills alone won't save you from job automation.

Cheating is deeply embedded in everyday life. Part of the problem is that many individuals fail to see such behavior as a problem.

If we’re going to treat psychological suffering as effectively as we treat pneumonia and broken bones, we’d better think outside the box. 

There are several ways alien life could travel across space, scientists say.

A new conception of quantum mechanics rests on the idea that parallel universes exist, and that they interact with our own to create weird and wonderful quantum phenomena. 

Why do some smart folk spout such bad ideas? Marilynne Robinson says it's because we teach them "higher twaddle.” She's right, but the situation is worse than she fears.

Kansas has launched such an ambitious educational project that public officials are likening it to the NASA moon missions of the 1960s.  

Despite doubts from the healthcare industry, Watson recently identified a surprisingly high number of potential cancer treatments for real-life patients.

Soon, the line that divides the living from the dead might not be so clear.

Today's fast-paced culture leaves no time for relational intelligence. Here's why it's worth slowing down to eventually speed up.

Understanding this evaluation process may help us create more sophisticated A.I.

Lab-grown, cultured meats, dairy, and leather will be hitting shelves soon. Paul Shapiro reports on the coming trend in his new book, Clean Meat.

Searches for this particular word increased 300% over last year. 

A growing body of research suggests that students of color perform better in school when they have at least one teacher of the same race.

Design thinking is a process that emphasizes creating human-centric solutions to common business problems. While this general definition explains the primary goal of design thinking, it doesn’t really cover the […]

Researchers discover the cause of mystery earthquakes in Texas.  

The Caucasus is dry, the Far East very wet

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Robert Bellah's essay “Civil Religion in America."

A new study investigates if pot smokers outperformed nonsmokers in creativity.