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The ability to delay gratification is vital for a successful life, and research suggests it is a skill that can be cultivated.

Groundbreaking neuroscience confirms what Sigmund Freud first theorized.

Happy Birthday To The Person Who Literally Brought Us The Entire Universe “Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.” –Edwin Hubble As […]

The immersive nature of virtual reality is worrying. We need to fully understand the path we’re headed down as new technologies are seemingly recreating our physical, kinetic lives.

If Americans get a “D” in science, what should the A-students do? “It is worthwhile, too, to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times […]

Should you check yourself before you bedeck yourself?

Terrorists exploit the “glamor of action movies, video games, and gangsta rap.” Counterterrorist efforts somehow have to counter that glamorization.

NASA’s Dawn Mission has finally photographed the full world at full resolution. Come see it! “Bringing an asteroid back to Earth? What’s that have to do with space exploration? If […]

A complete refusal to accept basic facts has made a religion of our gun obsession.

We’ve heard some pretty wild excuses to avoid clean energy. This one takes the cake.

Researchers tested police on major misconceptions about the psychology of policing

“Life is short; art endures” — As art time capsules proliferate, who is deciding what constitutes art worth saving for later?

A new book offers insights into the makers of earworms you can’t escape.

Lab-grown meat will be on our plates sooner than we may realize.

We all make small mistakes, but sometimes journalists report the complete and utter opposite of what a study really found.

Despite all those weeks sunning themselves and enjoying breaks from work, the French are among the most productive workers in the world. Americans could be, too. 

Free markets aren’t like gravity. They’re ruled by neither laws of nature nor commandments carved in stone. Delegating our ethics to markets risks costly error. All things are not equally auctionable.

The Universe may be truly infinite, but our understanding of it never will be. Here’s why. “To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not […]

Free riders choose to reap the rewards of a public good without paying their portion of the cost necessary to produce it.

The ad has been praised for its inclusivity, but it’s more transgressive than that.

Life won’t let you go; not because brighter days are right around the corner, but because it just won’t. 

Until the Internet was allowed on commercial flights, the solution to assuage my fear of flying was to find the nearest airport pub and throw a few back before boarding the plane. That’s all changed.

From the Milky Way’s perspective, there are hundreds of galaxies visible with even a small telescope. But from this galaxy’s location? Zero. “If the expansion of the space of the […]

Columbia University forensic psychiatrist Michael Stone dispels common myths about the intersection of violent acts and mental health disorders.

A new French agreement hopes to curb the global waste food by encouraging supermarkets to act generously.

What’s the science behind the need to add an extra day to the calendar every so often? “Will you or won’t you? Should you or shouldn’t you? Use this day […]

You can get as much done in six hours as you can in eight hours, but with much less wasted time.

There’s a very curious link between topography and personality.

Planets, Stars, Galaxies, Groups and Clusters are all real. But Superclusters? They’re nothing more than optical illusions. “It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.” –Virginia Woolf […]

It’s a wonderful potential technology for going interstellar. But in your lifetime? Don’t hold your breath. “Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We […]