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It marks another milestone in SpaceX’s long-standing effort to make spaceflight cheaper.
Our favorite over-the-counter medication has its limits.
A loophole signed into law during the Bush administration has been fiendishly tough to close.
The world’s richest people could breeze through a climate disaster – for a price.
Your next payday could be all digital.
You can be born with good genes and study hard and still not meet your potential. Your environment has a lot to do with how smart you are.
Andrew Yang argues that the Alaska Permanent Fund shows the path to implementing a nationwide universal basic income.
What are the plans, and are they enough?
Chairman of JetBlue Joel Peterson considers trust, “smart” trust, a key element in a successful organization. Where there’s trust, a company is free to become a whole greater than the […]
Barbara Tversky takes an outdated idea to task in Mind in Motion.
If you thought that diamonds were the hardest things of all, this will have you thinking again. Carbon is one of the most fascinating elements in all of nature, with chemical […]
The surprising results come from a new GLAAD survey.
Future cancer research may come from studying antler growth.
The more we learn about the microbiome, the more the pieces are fitting together.
We’re going to have to reckon with our workweek sooner than later.
At the core of the largest star-forming region of the Local Group sits the biggest star we know of. Mass is the single most important astronomical property in determining the lives […]
Harvard psychologists discover why we dislike the people who deliver bad news.
If life exists on Mars, there’s a good chance it’s related to us, say researchers.
Americans’ acceptance and desire of “dad bod” is increasing every year.
If loneliness is a “disease,” is this one of the complications?
When thinking about your shortcomings, it pays to be kind.
2018’s winter was particularly harsh on U.S. honeybees. What’s causing bee populations to plummet, and what can we do about it?
Empathy is what allows us to understand works of art, right?
Big data is here to save your dinner.
The wonder and the ethics of deep time. The “wood-wide-web”. The claustrophobia of the Anthropocene. In our 200th episode, UNDERLAND author Robert MacFarlane takes us on a journey deep into the Earth and ourselves.
Two independent techniques give precise but incompatible answers. Here’s how to resolve it. If you didn’t know anything about the Universe beyond our own galaxy, there are two different pathways you […]
Scientists may have seen a way to cure a maddening symptom of hearing loss.
