If you ever saw a spiral galaxy where one side looked darker than another, prepare yourself: now we know why! “With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, […]
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The more out of control a couple’s wedding budget grows, the shorter their marriage will tend to last, according to a new study by two Emory University economics professors.
Forgiveness is a difficult thing. But not letting go, and keeping all that resentment and blame may cause more harm to overall wellness than good.
If parents want their kids to feel well-rested, it may be best to limit their screen time. A recent study found that kids report feeling as if they haven’t had enough sleep after looking at small screen displays and TVs before bed.
Some disturbing statistics were recently released by a travel website and, if their findings are true, most Americans are throwing away their vacation days.
The former Chief Evangelist steps into Mark Zuckerberg’s shoes and explains that if he were CEO of Facebook he would make sure not to alienate users by debasing their social media experience.
On Monday the price of gas was down to a national average of $2.19 per gallon, capping off a record 102 days of decline. The price of a domestic flight remains flat.
WIRED’s Mat Honan argues that recent advances in the way tablets foster communication should serve as a death knell for traditional phone plans.
The second divorce in America took place 372 years ago on January 5, 1643. Records that follow show evidence that the early Puritan settlers of New England weren’t such sticklers when it came to divorce.
Jeff Reeves over at MarketWatch says a stronger dollar will hurt investors in 2015.
“When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.”
It’s useful to have a strategy for saying “no” to people trying to connect over e-mail without coming off as callous or cold.
Our devices tell us a lot about ourselves, just imagine how much they could reveal if all that information was put on display for a jury of your peers.
Remember the “Pillars of Creation,” the star-forming nursery in the heart of the Eagle Nebula? You’ve never seen it like this. “The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly […]
NASA represents a full 50% of the world’s expenditures on space science & exploration. What should we expect from it? “This Administration has never really faced up to where we […]
Airlines make a lot of money by creating miserable flying accommodations and then charging customers “convenience fees” to avoid them.
Body image acceptance from friends and significant others could help women to lose weight, whereas pressures to shed extra pounds leads to weight gains, according to researchers.
The internet and its design standards are at odds, according to Daniel Kahn Gillmor, a Technologist for the ACLU. In order to fix it, designers need to implement better security standards for communication.
While the symptoms of depression are marked by changes in the brain, the cause of the disease may ultimately lie in the body.
Dr. Tom Povey is a professor of Engineering Science at Oxford University who designs cooling systems for jet engines. In the early 2000s, inspired by his love of the outdoors, […]
The early Universe consisted of atoms, but 99.999999% of them were Hydrogen and Helium. Where’d the rest come from? “A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.” […]
The NBA gathers massive amounts of gameplay information through special cameras installed in its 29 arenas. Over the past several years, teams have learned to glean insight from the data and apply it to on-the-court strategy.
When eating a vegan, sugar-free, gluten-free diet becomes a lifestyle, the medicinal benefits may outpace those offered by strong prescription painkillers.
The greatest difference in opinion over abortion rights exists between women at opposite ends of the political spectrum, not between men and women as is often supposed in popular culture.
Although government-run job training programs are intended to instill young workers with new skills, more and more pensioners are jumping at the opportunity to try something new.
The harmful effects of Tasers are real—not just to the body, but to the mind. At the heels of yearlong study, Lauren Kirchner from Pacific Standard has compiled her data that questions the use of Tasers as a “safer” alternative to a firearm.
What if you could set yourself up to have a different memory in the future? Researchers say just post a false event to your social network feed.
If Mona Lisa is the smile, Madame Cézanne is the scowl. Hortense Fiquet, Paul Cézanne’s model turned mistress turned mother of his child turned metaphorical millstone around his neck, endures as a standard art history punch line—the muse whose misery won immortality through the many masterpiece portraits done of her. Or at least that’s how the joke usually goes. The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s current exhibition Madame Cézanne, which gathers together 24 of the 29 known portraits Cézanne painted of Hortense over a period of more than 20 years, tries to rewrite that joke as it hopes to solve the riddle of Madame Cézanne, aka, The Case of the Miserable Muse.
“If you draw something, I will add to it.” The red pen never felt so good. “Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the […]
For many industries, the next big innovative step is often spurred by achievement from an outside industry. The historical marriage between food preservation technology and nautical advancement is a perfect example.