Every year, companies strive to acquire and retain top talent. The cost of recruiting a new employee compared to retaining a current one varies from one business to the next, […]
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Nutritional science has increasingly begun to discover that the optimal diet should be an individualized solution, determined by many factors.
If all we had were hydrogen and helium after the Universe were born, we wouldn’t be here today. “The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical […]
The arts and crafts retailer Hobby Lobby was recently forced to forfeit thousands of illegally imported artifacts.
A lot goes into classifying a drug, not only it’s effects but how it alters the brain.
New research suggests that Tyrannosaurus Rex could only walk, not run, a big change in its ferocious image.
After a generation, we’re finally getting another close-up view. With the science we’re learning, we just might solve its mysteries. “Jupiter instead cooled down below the threshold for fusion, but […]
How do great ideas happen at the workplace? Often when good workers are left alone.
With quantum teleportation now occurring from Earth to satellites, how long is it before we can teleport a human being? “There would be no Star Trek unless there were transporter malfunctions.” –LeVar […]
All those donated clothes are interrupting production of local textiles.
Businesses have been adopting more diversity programs since the 1990s, but do they actually work?
A programmer was able to automate his remote job; collecting a full-time paycheck while working for two hours a week. The employer, none the wiser, is satisfied with the completed work. But is it ethical?
In How Emotions Are Made psychology professor Lisa Fedlman Barrett considers the role of emotions in health.
Can guess what’s on the list?
Is logic an immutable, unchangeable set of rules? Or has it it evolved with time – and will it continue to do so?
The communication techniques required to be a successful leader are frequently synonymous with the communication skills required for a business to be successful. For leaders who want to both deliver […]
Comparing NYC to Luxembourg, by way of iceberg A-68
If the expanding Universe and the cosmic microwave background didn’t convince you, this intricate, spectacular prediction should. “In the current cosmological model, only the three lightest elements were created in […]
Theoretical physicist and cosmologist Lawrence M. Krauss spoke at CSICon 2016 about scientists’ attempt to look back in time to the beginning of our universe.
We’re at risk of mistaking the music for the piano in using a “jump to the gene” approach to biology. It’s time for a more fitting view of genes to evolve.
A new report highlights the increasing violence faced by environmental activists around the world.
Poop, soup, books — repeat. Who could forget that montage? Here are the key takeaways from the first episode of Game of Thrones season 7, which crashed the HBO website like wildfire taking down the Sept.
NASA is close to testing its next-generation nuclear fission reactors that would power a Mars colony and propel space exploration.
Nothing has ever come closer than NASA’s Voyager 1, nearly 40 years ago. Last week, all that changed. “Juno will peer hundreds of miles downward into the atmosphere with its microwave […]
Can we ensure robots are greeted into society without people getting that sinking feeling?
The four fundamental forces might have been just a single, unified one in the very early Universe. Could that be true? “Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves […]
19% of American soldiers returned from Vietnam addicted to heroin. 95% of them recovered without relapse. How?
Research on ghost sightings reveal underlying manifestations that affect us in weird ways.
Psychopathy and sadism play a prominent role among those who choose to take it up.
Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Authors Neal Stephenson & Nicole Galland on blurring the lines between science and magic.