Over the past 70 years, the Roman Catholic Church in Pennsylvania has been covering up child sexual abuse by hundreds of priests, according to a new report issued by a grand jury on Tuesday.
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The Thucydides Trap leads us to believe a U.S.-China war is inevitable. But is a 2,400-year-old school of thought really what the U.S. should base its foreign policy on?
A theory of history says America is in the grips of a crisis called “The Fourth Turning” that will change it forever.
Many school districts are switching over to a four day week. Is this a good idea?
Geneticists figure out how elephants keep from getting cancer.
Researchers at MIT believe they might have located the neural regions responsible for pessimism.
One of the most significant challenges in today’s increasingly fast-paced and demanding business world is figuring out how to balance growing workloads and personal time. A combination of long hours […]
The ices and rock aren’t green, and neither are the tails. So where does a comet’s green color come from? Every so often, with extreme regularity, comets will plunge from beyond […]
These maps offer a glimpse of what’s been lost – or rather, destroyed – by previous generations.
A new study used massive amounts of data from an online dating service to explore what makes someone desirable, and how people go about attracting partners online.
Scientists reversed the ageing of human cells, which could provide the basis for future anti-degeneration drugs.
It’s still only in the lab at this stage, and then there’s the problem of where, exactly, to store the carbon-impregnated magnesite.
The European Commission is about to pass some laws regulating the future of the Internet. Here’s how to make sure these laws are fair and just.
The Union of Concerned Scientists recently surveyed more than 63,000 scientists from 16 federal agencies, revealing a range of attitudes toward the current administration.
Congo is one of the most culturally diverse, mineral rich, and beautiful places on Earth. But the “heart of darkness” colonizers dreamed into being still bleeds. Daniel McCabe’s documentary This is Congo lets this wounded nation speak for itself.
New research spots a remarkable meeting of Jupiter’s jet streams and its magnetic field and proposes that it may contain the explanation for the planets’ striking cloud patterns.
In the earliest stages of the Universe, before there were protons or neutrons, we had a quark-gluon plasma. The story of our cosmic history is one of an expanding and […]
MIT researchers find that 1–2 percent of Earth’s oldest mantle rocks are made from diamond. rnrn
The FBI has warned banks that a group of criminals might be planning a large-scale ‘ATM cash-out’ after receiving a tip from an unknown source.
A much-needed “causal revolution” has arrived in Judea Pearl’s ‘The Book of Why’. But despite vast improvements over “trad stats”, there’s cause for concern over logic-losing numbers.
Starting this fall, public schools in Florida will be required to display the words “In God We Trust” in a noticeable place within each building used by a district.
A publication from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco says that the Great Recession that happened 10 years ago will cost us all $70K over a lifetime because of lost GDP.
A new paper strengthens the theory that black holes are like balls of space yarn and debunks the idea of “firewalls”.
A new study finds that even minutes of meditation or mindfulness increases your cognitive capabilities.
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If the Breakthrough Starshot initiative, promoted by Stephen Hawking, works exactly as planned, it could lead to disaster. Imagine yourself on a world not so different from Earth, orbiting a […]
We know that excessive blue light is a problem. Now we know why.
Chinese hackers at DEFCON have demonstrated how they were able to hack an Amazon Echo unit, enabling them to listen and record unsuspecting targets.