We are discovering that the subtleties of our psychological lives are being managed by specific modules in our brains.
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New research predicts the existence of completely different kind of stars.
Some things in life just can’t be explained. And that’s okay.
In the wake of suicides by high-profile and much-beloved celebrities Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain, psychologists and psychiatrists say that suicide is too complex and indeterminate for humans to predict.
Effective business communication is not just an advantage for businesses — it’s a necessity. According to Salesforce, 86% of 1,400 surveyed corporate execs, employees, and educators attribute workplace failures to […]
A study published in Applied Cognitive Psychology suggests that believers struggle to understand the physical world.
The first step is recognizing that physical, mental, and emotional health are interconnected.
Einstein didn’t like the schools he went to, how would he improve them?
Feversham Academy in Bradford, England has profoundly improved its students’ performance by adding a lot more music to their curriculum.
Duke University researchers found that stimulating brain regions dealing with abstract reasoning and cognitive flexibility alleviate anxiety and depression.
The hallmark of a good scientist is changing your mind when new evidence arises. Here’s what that looks like. Science, like many things in life, is always a work-in-progress. While a […]
Elegance, beauty, and mathematical precision makes for a compelling story and an exquisite model. But it doesn’t make it right. Scientific theories, at their best, are simple, straightforward, full of predictive […]
Summary Salman Khan, the founder of Khan Academy, discusses the story of how he was inspired to create a software-based learning tool that would teach others subjects like Math, World […]
In 2015, Ed Witten, the greatest living string theorist, wrote a piece on why. Here’s the version for everyone. It’s one of the most brilliant, controversial and unproven ideas in […]
Granted, genetic manipulation has been a dream for decades. Here’s what is different now.
The way that hits are now calculated, impossibly long albums may be on the horizon.
Mathematicians argue in a new paper that the accelerating expansion of the universe can be explained without dark energy.
Research has shown that early intervention can make ASD more manageable.
In the search for fundamental truths in our Universe, one of the biggest questions, “are space and time continuous or discrete,” remains unanswered. Throughout the history of science, one of […]
Understanding this evaluation process may help us create more sophisticated A.I.
How useful are the algorithms dating sites use? According to one regulatory agency, not very.
We should stop “celebrating” Valentines Day in elementary-school classrooms.
If we know how big the observable Universe is, why can’t we figure out how big the unobservable part is? 13.8 billion years ago, the Big Bang occurred. The Universe was […]
Are all those drunk animals on YouTube actually drunk? Zoologist Lucy Cooke examines what’s really going on when animals go, er, wild.
You’ve heard of the big Greek philosophers. Now, read about the ones who inspired them.
By training algorithms on human data, they learn our biases.
A top-secret government airline that flies to locations like Area 51 is put in a spotlight by a recent ad and an unexpected connection to the Las Vegas shooting.
Physicists propose a new kind of space structure that can allow information to escape from black holes.
The effect worked best when the women knew whose shirt it was.
And the one “sucker’s question” you must never answer, even if the salesperson asks it. For a majority of American adults, a car is a necessity of daily life. From commuting […]