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There’s still hope for implicit bias training, research shows.
Researchers speculate the famous monument was one of the world’s first solar calendars, possibly inspired by trade with ancient Egyptians.
A popular and longstanding wave of thought in psychology and psychotherapy is that diagnosis is not relevant for practitioners in those fields.
Schools have become captivated by the idea that students must learn a set of generalized critical-thinking skills to flourish in the contemporary world.
Life arose on Earth very early on. After a few billion years, here we are: intelligent and technologically advanced. Where’s everyone else?
Since the time of Galileo, Saturn’s rings have remained an unexplained mystery. A new idea may have finally solved the longstanding puzzle.
Before it fueled Woodstock and the Summer of Love, LSD was brought to America to make spying easier.
Nearly 90% of the world’s blind live in low-income countries.
Among history’s many thought leaders, Plato may sport the most impressive resume of the bunch. The Athenian philosopher founded the Academy. His Dialogues are required reading at every institution of […]
Frank Lloyd Wright captured serenity in his masterpiece, Fallingwater, but his egotistical tendencies made life for others anything but serene.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Swiss Enlightenment philosopher who praised a simple life and inspired the worst of the French Revolution.
We can’t ask them, so scientists have devised an experiment.
Research has found that previously encountered information feels more “fluent.”
People admire complexity. Many attribute it to the work of superior minds, those with the skills or intelligence to wrangle challenging ideas into a workable—if not always comprehensible—whole. This esteem […]
The most important events in history have nothing to do with politics or wars.
An evolutionary biologist explains why you probably won’t grow a tail.
We give it the flight plan, and it takes care of the rest. It has to. Here’s why. No matter how advanced our technology becomes, there are certain limits that can […]
Scientists use new methods to discover what’s inside drug containers used by ancient Mayan people.
More than any other nation, Japan tends to feel comfortable with the idea of humanoid robots entering the home.
The latest gravitational wave data from LIGO and Virgo finally shows us the truth: there are no “gaps” in the masses of black holes.
When the mutual relatives of two royal families died, the countries were likelier to go to war.
Symptoms of mental illness in children are often dismissed as “going through a phase.”
Even with only 12.5 hours of exposure time, James Webb’s first deep-field image taught us lessons we’ve never realized before.
According to Harvard economists, Democrats and Republicans both perceive reality very wrong.
This storm rained electrons, shifted energy from the sun’s rays to the magnetosphere, and went unnoticed for a long time.
Anxiety can be good or bad. It turns out that it’s really up to you.
MIT Professor Sinan Aral’s new book, “The Hype Machine,” explores the perils and promise of social media in a time of discord.
Can the main psychoactive ingredient of magic mushrooms help treat the world’s sixth most debilitating illness?
How our brains interpret computer code could impact how we teach it.