Digging deeper into last week’s revelations about the Red Planet.
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You might think conspiracies that say everything that happens is caused by a group of the powerful are a modern phenomenon. Karl Popper says they are two thousand years old.
In his first media appearances since the Cambridge Analytica story broke, Mark Zuckerberg spoke to several publications about how Facebook plans to protect user data going forward.
Organizations at every level seek to have the best possible leadership within their ranks. They often are willing to spend extra time, money, and effort to train their employees. Having […]
Multitasking has been shown to diminish our ability to learn, stress us out, and kill our productivity. Here are some techniques to limit multitasking and help us regain our lost time.
Nietzsche had some harsh things to say about the worldview of the masses, but what did he really think?
In a sense, a proton acts very much like a star.
Lasers, mirrors, and computational advances can all work together to push ground-based astronomy past even the limits of Hubble. One of the most profoundly remarkable properties about our atmosphere is that […]
A new study from researchers at Northwestern University and University of Surrey links being a night owl to dying younger. It’s a large study of nearly half a million people and the first to document such a link.
You’ve probably seen it hanging around. But how did it get there? And can we live there?
Artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and augmented reality are already a big part of the travel industry.
A new study looks at how teens construct their online identities.
By 2020, China plans to assign each of its 1.4 billion citizens a “social credit score” that could determine what certain people are allowed to do.
Think you detect some grade-A baloney? Here’s how you can tell for sure.
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Truth is, dinosaurs aren’t as distinct as you may think, but to find out why, we first have to consider how we got the term “dinosaur.”
Can we make progress in a world in which we don’t trust our institutions?
Mark Zuckerberg has infamously downplayed Facebook’s responsibilities as a business in the content creation space. Instead, he defends it as a technology platform.
Research suggests that your name affects the level of success you’ll achieve in your career and love life, and even where you choose to live.
An anthropologist and a theologian walk into a room. The punchline is wise and wonderful.
In an immersive virtual environment, what will it be like to kill?
It is still true that far more men than women have leading roles in many organisations.
From a developmental perspective, lying in young children is rarely cause for concern. In fact, lying is often one of the first signs a young child has developed a “theory of mind.”
If there’s other intelligent life in the universe, is it very different from us, or is it very similar? First we have to know where our species is headed, says NASA’s Michelle Thaller.
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El Castillo, a pyramid in Mexico, was built in such a way that the “snake of sunlight” would slither down its steps at the dawning of each equinox, as the sun rose into the sky.
By training algorithms on human data, they learn our biases.
Somewhere out there, perhaps in another place and time, there’s a person who looks like your identical twin stranger — at least to an untrained observer.
Though conventional wisdom suggests that birth order influences personality, newer research says this isn’t true. What is true is how powerful an effort to remain close to our brothers and sisters as we grow up can be.
For many, their religion is a core part of their identity, the meaning they find in life, and their social world. Changing this crucial aspect of themselves will have significant psychological consequences.
What’s the secret language of depression?
The cycle of poverty can be hard to break, will early childhood interventions based on new neuroscience be the silver bullet we need?