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Schools have become captivated by the idea that students must learn a set of generalized critical-thinking skills to flourish in the contemporary world.
Shortly after planet Earth formed, life took a permanent hold on our surface. But just how common is such an outcome?
According to this research, eight percent of Americans always refuse vaccines. Why?
Cancer cells seem to have a harder time growing among pair-bonded mice, according to a new study that explored the “widowhood effect.”
Learning another language might make you richer, sexier, and smarter. Why not try it?
Is college worth it? This question may seem a no-brainer, but there are many reasons why it is worthy of serious deliberation. Here are three.
Contrary to what some might think, the brain is a very plastic organ.
The number of PhDs has been exceeding the available academic positions since as early as the mid-1990s.
Upskilling prepares today’s workforce for tomorrow’s opportunities, positioning organizations for success in the future.
Hybrid working, robot fast food workers, and the rapid acceleration of NFTs are just the beginning.
Amplifying the energy within a laser, over and over, won’t get you an infinite amount of energy. There’s a fundamental limit due to physics.
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Individual space telescopes, like Hubble and JWST, revolutionized our knowledge of the Universe. What if we had an array of them, instead?
Dennis Klatt developed trailblazing text-to-speech systems before losing his own voice to cancer.
First, recognize that our genes make us worrywarts.
In some countries, people want more freedom of speech. In others, they feel that there is too much.
While a squirrel’s life may look simple to human observers – climb, eat, sleep, repeat – it involves finely tuned cognitive skills.
The most mental game in existence no longer requires fingers.
Adam Frank, a card-carrying atheist and physics professor, wonders if there might be more to life than pure science.
The paradox of tribalism is that humans need a sense of belonging to be healthy and happy, but too much tribalism is deadly. We are one tribe.
Meet MIT’s Kate Darling, a robot ethicist who says that we should rethink our relationship with robots.
Augmented reality (AR) contact lenses will project the digital world into our retinas, perhaps helping us navigate the metaverse.
She helped create CRISPR, a gene-editing technology that is changing the way we treat genetic diseases and even how we produce food.
In recent years, women have made incredible strides in the business world. Forty-one women currently lead Fortune 500 companies. While that remains an unacceptably low percentage (8 percent) overall, it […]
Psychologists are finding that moral code violations can leave an enduring mark — and may require new types of therapy.
Earth is the Solar System’s only known inhabited planet. Could Venus, if its phosphine signal is real, be our second world with life?
A new essay by Rafael Euba questions the goals of the happiness industry.
The ten greatest ideas in science form the bedrock of modern biology, chemistry, and physics. Everyone should be familiar with them.