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The Green New Deal is an ambitious attempt to fight climate change, but is it destined to hit the political skids?

Virtual reality is now approaching mainstream, but with so little research available it’s difficult to determine the dangers of VR for children.

To get a good night’s sleep, is it better to write down your achievements or the to-do list for the next day? Researchers tested the two different sleep techniques in the lab.

Facebook disclosed to Congress last week that it gave 61 companies special access to user data in 2015, a revelation that differs from the social media company’s past claims.

Representation matters. Meet five stellar women in physics who were unjustly denied their place in history. Nobel season is now over, with another year in the books of celebrating the scientists […]

An Oxford physicist tries to cast doubt on dark energy, but the data says otherwise. It was a mere 20 years ago that our picture of the Universe got a […]

It’s much more than an art form.

On June 7th, the Canadian Senate will vote on Bill C-45. It is expected to pass, making Canada the first of the G7 nations to legalize recreational marijuana.

Some of the most important decisions you will make in your lifetime will occur while you feel stressed and anxious.

There’s got to be a thousand ways to reclaim the past, but for Tara Westover, story was the only one that could contain all of it.

When you’re at the top of a business, you might be tempted to say to your employees that everything is fine because you have all the answers.

There is a reason why anti-vaxx attitudes are hard to shake, explains a new study.

In a new study, people with a keener sense of smell reported finding their sexual activities more “pleasant”, and women with a greater sensitivity to odours had more orgasms during sex. 

She made the world be the change that she wanted to see in herself. She thought local and acted global.

Decades of studies have shown parents to be less happy than their childless peers. But are the kids to blame?

The hundreds of people that show up for flat Earth conventions are not the problem. What this type of thinking leads to is.

The idea of a “healthy gut flora” might have gotten you laughed out of the room just five years ago, but they’ve slowly been more accepted over the years and are now firmly in the mainstream.

A new study shows that psychopaths have a hard time telling when someone’s genuinely distressed, and that they don’t seem to care much either way.

A new study shows that U.S. students infected with the Toxoplasma gondii parasite are more likely to be business managers and entrepreneurs.

Believe it or not, our eating habits are influenced by what music is playing and other forces that we may not be consciously aware of.

Fill up your gas tank, no matter how hot it is, with confidence and safety from anywhere on Earth. For most of the northern hemisphere, summer is in full swing. Along […]

We don’t have to stop inquiring or wondering about the far-flung vistas of reality, we just need to do it with some good old-fashioned logic.

What happened 4.56 billion years ago is the most important part of the cosmic story ever to happen to us. If you were to look at our Universe at the time […]

Wow. Reading Hawking’s Ph.D. paper is like listening to Pink Floyd for decades and then suddenly finding out they had a different and even more groundbreaking debut album. 

The hard part was keeping the list down to ten.

Psychologists have found that, while we tend to judge our own vulnerability more harshly, we perceive vulnerability in others as courage.

A new study reveals that babies as young as one year old can think logically.

Whether you caught or missed the eclipse of January 20/21, 2019, here’s what you need to know for all the ones you’ll ever view again. On January 20/21, 2019, a very […]

The Chinese government announced it will be genetic testing potential Olympic athletes for the 2022 Games. What could possibly go wrong?

If you accept cosmic inflation and quantum physics, there’s no way out. The Multiverse is real. Look out at the Universe all you want, with arbitrarily powerful technology, and you’ll never […]