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The first list of antidepressant food scores restructures the “standard” American diet.

Nurturing several relationships at once can empower us to build a life so rich that when we lose one love among many, we don’t feel as if we’ve lost ‘everything.’

Almost 200 cognitive biases rule our everyday thinking. A new codex boils them down to 4.

A team of researchers at Cornell University has developed a revolutionary battery architecture that could someday increase storage capacity while cutting charge times to mere seconds.

If confirmed by future observations, this would be the most significant discovery of liquid water on Mars yet.

Here are four separate ways you can prove it, even 50 years after-the-fact. 50 years ago, on July 20, 1969, humanity took our first footsteps on the surface of another […]

50 years ago, Apollo 9 launched. Without it, we never would’ve landed on the Moon. The Apollo program is most famous for its greatest achievement: taking humanity to the Moon. It […]

Across the world, companies are experimenting with shorter workweeks — is it working?

Despite what you may have heard, they don’t suck anything in at all. Black holes are some of the strangest, most wondrous objects in all the Universe. With huge amounts of […]

Both effects could be responsible for a redshift. But only one makes sense for our Universe. In physics, like in life, there are often multiple solutions to a problem that […]

Consciousness expert Michael Graziano on what, if anything, makes us uniquely human.

It’s a startling thought, really: “The only person’s face I can’t see in a conversation or a meeting is my own.” That’s a little unnerving. Sheila Heen, founder of Triad […]

On Thursday, New Zealand moved to ban an array of semi-automatic guns and firearms components following a mass shooting that killed 50 people.

Scientists at Stanford Medicine recently observed that some mice recovered from strokes better than others, leading them to wonder whether or not they could find evidence that specific genes played […]

The person whose phone was affected would have been given no indication that others were eavesdropping.

A study of 323 uprisings against repressive regimes yields stunning insights.

A completely unexpected discovery beneath the ice.

Since the advent of communication, humans have used stories to create meaningful lives.

Every object in the Universe is constrained by the laws of physics. Does this mean there are any black holes that shouldn’t exist? When it comes to the objects that […]

Technology holds the promise of a better future, but our footprint on the planet threatens to undo all our dreams and progress. It’s pretty easy to look at the world […]

 A one-on-one conversation is a valuable opportunity to connect with someone and to benefit from what they have to say. Unfortunately, these chats tend to happen in the middle of […]

The same 32 symbols show up in prehistoric European cave art.

Dark matter is one of the most puzzling, unintuitive concepts in all of physics. But we still need it. Our Universe isn’t like us. While we’re made of atoms, and other […]

Russia has launched several so-called “inspector satellites” that could potentially be weaponized.

There’s a difference between having a harmonious passion and an obsessive one.

Jim Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz just won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics. It couldn’t be more well-deserved. Every year, the Nobel Prize reminds all of humanity to […]

If you want to avoid conversation dead ends, remember to “turn” the conversation more than you “take it,” says entrepreneur and author Andrew Horn.

A new study shows promise for epigenetic treatments for humans suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.

As more time passes since the Big Bang, more of the Universe comes into view. But how much? Even though it’s been billions of years since the Big Bang, there’s a […]

How fast is the Universe expanding? The results might be pointing to something incredible. If you want to know how something in the Universe works, all you need to do […]