For many, their religion is a core part of their identity, the meaning they find in life, and their social world. Changing this crucial aspect of themselves will have significant psychological consequences.
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We all want to help our children learn and a new study shows that encouraging curiosity might be the best way to do it.
Diversity & inclusion (D&I) ranks among some of the top areas of importance for organizations in the United States. While it is a popular buzzword, it’s also an integral part […]
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NASA just cancelled its only lunar rover in development, despite President Donald Trump’s orders to expand lunar expeditions.
How good urban design can help us become better people.
Secular Web compiles a number of publications in atheism, nontheism, and science over the last few centuries.
Two tech titans can’t agree on the one thing that could come to define our times: A.I. What do they have to say on the matter?
New research on the hypothalamus shows that body heat matters.
A new Pew Research study shows how widely varied belief in what God, or a higher power, actually is.
Thought experiment: What if you graft Israel’s borders onto the San Francisco Bay Area?
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Fasting is trending, yet it’s also been prescribed for thousands of years. Does the science on the Fasting Mimicking Diet (FMD) hold up?
The part of your brain responsible for ASMR catalogs music, and appears to be a stronghold against Alzheimer’s and dementia.
Prince William and Kate Middleton have welcomed their third child to the royal family. Find out where the new royal baby falls in the line of succession to the throne.
Using a machine-learning system known as a deep neural network, MIT researchers have created the first model that can identify a musical genre just like a human would.
The answer can give us an indication of where our universe is headed and how it might end.
You’ll be surprised how many commonly known science “facts” are actually total misconceptions.
If you go down to the woods today you’ll be sure of a big surprise… (possible) death by caterpillar!
The NFL is known predominantly for its players’ display of athletic prowess. But you’d be surprised to know that many of these same players are incredibly smart. Here are some of the smartest NFL players ever to have graced the league.
We’ve always used media as a means of framing reality. How will this affect our relationship with VR?
Why do people distrust atheists? And are they right to do so?
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Is there a way to join an infamous secret society like the Illuminati or Skull and Bones? Or even Disney’s secret supper club within Disneyland?
You are who you are because of your environment. What happens in a virtual world in an environment created by another mind?
Scientists have replicated Albert Einstein’s spooky action at a distance on a massive scale—well, for the quantum world, anyway.