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Pedal faster, we need the juice! The tech giant is about to become the world's greenest company. Here's how.
One in five employees are distracted at work by social media, a Pew Research Center poll finds.
MRI study finds brains of ASD subjects are more symmetrical than typical brains, which makes sense.
Spain and the US have very similar compulsory school hours and homework requirements. There's a good argument for rallying against this trend.
If the impossible space engine works, could dark matter reconcile the laws of physics with these bizarre experimental results? “…axions are potentially detectable through their weak coupling to electromagnetism…” -Aaron […]
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Are you detective material? This visual intelligence test will make you think twice about accuracy and just how much details matter.
They'll reportedly last for thousands of years. This technology may someday power spacecraft, satellites, high-flying drones, and pacemakers.
Biomechanist Katy Bowman argues that our fitness mindset has environmental consequences in her new book, Movement Matters.
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If hate is a virus, the U.S. has got it bad. Oliver Luckett presents a fascinating perspective on how the 2016 election divided America, how social media mimics biology, and how the U.S. can start to rebuild.
Amazon announces a new type of smart brick-and-mortar shopping with no checkouts.
There is a lot of very elegant research on vaccines, but the key question is whether we can make a product that is manufacturable, and can be used safely when and where it is needed.
Here, it's men who suffer from a (reverse) gender pay gap
The highest energy collisions go beyond any collider… and may hold a fantastic secret! This article was written by Sabine Hossenfelder. Sabine is a theoretical physicist specialized in quantum gravity. […]
HINT: Don't just learn the opposite view. Argue it.
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Einstein believed his greatest blunder to have been the retraction of one of his equations but, as writer David Bodanis tells, the great scientist's misstep actually happened immediately after.
The necessity yet utter inconvenience of wearing and carrying around a bike helmet has always posed an interesting design challenge - creating a helmet that is light, compact and ideally […]
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Tim Ferriss shares a bounty of strategies to help you really and truly overcome procrastination. And if it doesn't do it for you, hey, at least you just killed 10 minutes.
In between time checks on the Doomsday Clock, Stephen Hawking is here to remind us we are living in dangerous times.
How should we view the amendment to Rule 41? Edward Snowden would have you believe it returns us to a time when a tyrant ruled over America.
Sometimes, what nature gives you is even better than what you hoped for. “Science doesn’t always go forwards. It’s a bit like doing a Rubik’s cube. You sometimes have to make […]