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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has shocked investors and now draws the ire of the SEC after clumsily announcing that he intended to take the company private.
A team of archaeologists has discovered 3,200-year-old cheese after analyzing artifacts found in an ancient Egyptian tomb. It could be the oldest known cheese sample in the world.
In the Western world, there’s a constant pressure to be happy. Paradoxically, this makes people more prone to anxiety and depression.
The coming few years should really tell us a lot more about them.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development has accused Facebook of violating the Fair Housing Act, an accusation that was also made by the National Fair Housing Alliance in March.
Respected Oxford mathematician Roger Penrose sees swirls of radioactivity in a sky map as evidence that the Big Bang isn’t true. These “Hawking rings” suggest to him that the universe expands and collapses over and over.
No international borders, no international order—and yet, most land borders are not very old: more than half were drawn after 1900.
The Universe is an enormous place, but we can’t see all the way back to the beginning. Here’s the latest record-breaker. No matter how far back we look in the […]
When it comes to optimizing your workout, breakfast might be winning again.
Throughout Europe, 92 percent of children speak multiple languages. In America, that number is 20 percent.
Jonathan Zittell Smith, the most influential scholar of religion of the past half-century, thought that religion “is created for the scholar’s analytic purposes.”
In July of 2018, there were 11 wildfires occurring north of the Arctic Circle. That’s more than ever before.
According to the study, for every extra day a student experienced sleep problems, they were 10% more likely to drop a course.
The ICARUS Initiative aims to track migratory animals from space using special transmitters and antennae. The data retrieved from the project will help us conserve biodiversity but has the potential to promote human well-being and prosperity, too.
Couples who had fish more than 8 times a menstrual cycle had a 47% shorter time getting pregnant than those who didn’t, and had 22% more sex than those that didn’t.
The ultimate fate of the universe is a mind-bogglingly thing to think about. So what’s the final outcome for it all?
The Universal Basic Income (UBI) movement has a major problem: nobody really knows how much it would cost to implement it.
A new survey of 1,021 Americans finds that we still have lots of questions and concerns about GMOs and that we don’t even really know when we’re consuming them.
Richard Feynman once asked a silly question. Two MIT students just answered it.
In General Relativity, even space and time themselves aren’t what they seem. Gravity might have been the first fundamental force ever discovered, but in many ways, it remains the least-well understood. […]
The Satanic Temple unveiled a statue of the occult idol Baphomet outside the Arkansas State Capitol building on Thursday to protest the Ten Commandments monument already on capitol grounds.
Accomplishments? Yes, Aretha Franklin had them.
Citing increasing student debt and the desire to see more family and pediatric physicians, the school might have started a trend.
After speaking with the world’s “top business leaders”, President Donald Trump has asked the SEC to study the potential impacts of removing rules that require companies to file reports with the agency every three months.
Space may be enormous, but collisions are inevitable. Here’s what happens when they occur. The Universe as we know it has been around for nearly 14 billion years: plenty of time […]
Vaccinations have saved countless lives and untold suffering, even though many adults still believe vaccines are bad for their children.
Out of 45 samples, glyphosate was present in all but two, and almost three-quarters of the samples were found to have glyphosate levels that exceeded the EWG’s ‘health benchmark’.
Want to go to school to learn how to mine in space? Now you can.
A new study discovers that engaging in back-and-forth conversations with a child builds stronger connections between two of their brains’ vital critical speech areas, regardless of socioeconomic status.