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Life on Earth may not be the only way. But could it be this different? This article is written by Jillian Scudder, currently a postdoctoral researcher at Sussex in the […]
Leaders are not defined by their bombastic decision-making, but by the ways in which they pool information to inform their choices.
Turns out parents just don’t understand.
It’s when everything falls away and the only thing you can see is the story unfold.
Mavens are defined as experts in their field, and identifying them can help businesses innovate and grow. So, researchers have developed a test to figure out whether someone is a maven.
It’s extremely difficult for new technologies to also envision the ways we will relate to each other in the future.
The news has some serious implications for activists and journalists that rely on its protections.
Common assumptions about the dangers of radiation are excessive. Journalism plays a huge role in creating and feeding these fears.
NYU’s Dr. Nicole Foubister chats with us about the two-faced nature of bipolar disorder.
Fear of invasion is a recurring theme in Australian history.
As children become more overscheduled, playtime decreases and the pressure to achieve increases. The cost of that trade-off is high.
In a study that challenges conventional wisdom, two researchers determine that deftly playing office politics has a tendency to backfire.
AI will throw a wrench into many of our theological foundations. How will we adapt?
What if Bill Nye were your warm, rational uncle? What if you could informally ask his opinion on anything from black holes to the zombie apocalypse? Well now you can.
Ever seen an episode of CSI? A bit of snot can reveal a lot.
A decision requiring cellphone retailers to warn customers of possible radiation risk typifies the emotion-based way that democracy can supersede intelligent government risk policy-making.
The space agency seeks to index the parts of the Internet Google won’t show you.
A live-blog event of a fabulous public lecture given by Katie Freese on the unseen components in our Universe. “If you take everything we know… it only adds up to […]
Public apprehension about the health effects of mercury FAR exceeds the actual danger. Why, and what are the health impacts of that fear!?
Ben Carson has recently surged in the polls. Should we be concerned about his apocalyptic visions?
If you’re one of the 85,000 readers who took the three-question quiz I posted last week, chances are you answered some items incorrectly. Like some of my smart, accomplished friends and family […]
How does he deliver presents to hundreds of millions of households in just one night? With physics, of course! “Our family was too strange and weird for even Santa Claus to […]
You’d think divorce lawyers would be making a killing over something like this. Apparently not.
Some day fact-checking will be as easy as using spell-check.
Climate change doesn’t have the emotional characteristics that make it truly deep-in-your-heart scary. Leaders will have to act anyway.
The first evidence that shows how your lifestyle could alter your child’s genes and their children’s genes has appeared.
I scored an exclusive interview with Dave Reitze, the executive director of LIGO. Take a trip inside his Universe. “When I was in high school, I was certain that being […]