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For a long time we’ve tried to polarize teamwork as either 100% positive or negative. But in truth there are ways it can be both.
What is former President Bill Clinton’s election endorsement worth to people who were toddlers or teens during his time in office?
A program called Cultivating Awareness and Resilience in Education helps teachers deal with stress. It also helps them better handle everyday situations in the classroom.
And why it might spell trouble for dark energy as we know it. “That’s all regular matter, just five percent. A quarter is “dark matter,” which is invisible and detectable only […]
We tend to think con artists are smooth talkers and persuasive sellers, but listening is their most important quality, says Maria Konnikova, who has written a new book on con artistry.
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Feeling IS fast thinking. And emotions aren’t always guilty of being irrational. Whenever pondering minds, always bear in mind Daniel Kahneman’s teachings on the brain.
While progress has been made in understanding the mechanisms behind consciousness, a seemingly limitless neuronal interaction makes discovering a point of origin challenging.
Why you might want to find ways to get more greenery onto your block.
For the central 8,000 light years, there are practically no tracers of new stars. What gives? “This suggests a lack of Cepheids in the inner 2.5 kpc region of the Galactic […]
Imagine a device implanted inside your body which can detect heart disease, diabetes, cancer, an infection, and more, down at the genetic level? Scientists at UC San Diego have just created one.
Something isn’t right about the Universe without something extra. So why can’t scientists agree on what that “extra” thing is? “All we know so far is what doesn’t work.” –Richard Feynman […]
Hulk Hogan’s Gawker lawsuit is a classic freedom of the press case dressed up as a soap opera.
An expansive new study makes clear the extent of the problem and the importance of parents in avoiding teen drug use.
“Eureka!” is not always as powerful as “that’s what I thought!” “Reality is what kicks back when you kick it. This is just what physicists do with their particle accelerators. […]
New research shows the benefits of sixty seconds of high-intensity exercise. While the study is valid, the mentality that a minute is enough is misguided.
The International Space Station (ISS) has been playing host to many different kinds of microbes as part of a larger study to figure out how bacteria reacts to a microgravity environment and cosmic radiation.
New research on student learning with technology and computers.
A new security technology identifies people by the sound of their skulls.
A new Italian study shows that women who eat pasta are skinnier. But there’s more to the research than that.
All teachers should strive to instill in their students the ability to think rationally and clearly communicate their conclusions. One educator has recommended using heavy metal as a focal topic in teaching sound thinking.
The real problem with bypassing the iPhone’s security features is bigger than violating the privacy rights of Americans. It’s coming to terms with how governments around the world would react.
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The online vigilante group says it has located personal information belonging to ISIS recruiters living in Europe.
The force of empty space isn’t always zero. Here’s how an electromagnetic experiment might be the key to dark energy. “Another very good test some readers may want to look up… […]
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If we started all over again, could our Solar System’s second planet have been the inhabited one? “It was the Venus I had prayed to, it was my prayer, though […]
Will we be building a better world or a more homogeneous one?
Police use the same mechanism to make split-second life-or-death decisions that we do. But that mechanism is kind of a racist idiot.
New techniques in cryogenics may fundamentally affect the identity of the revived.