This study also gives some insight on whether gender identity is learned or is biological.
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If your BMI is higher than 30, you’re technically obese. These maps show how many people per European country (and U.S. state) suffer from that medical condition.
The possibilities were almost limitless, so why does everything line up? Our Solar System is an orderly place, with the four inner planets, the asteroid belt, and the gas giant worlds […]
Jeff Bezos is now worth a record $112 billion. Yes, billion with a “b”.
The indirectly find was completely unexpected, and, if it holds up, could give the James Webb Space Telescope its first tantalizing target. In the quest to understand our Universe, and […]
Debates about the kind of sex that we should be having are focused on the issue of individual choice and sexual autonomy. We are living, it seems, in the age of consent.
Plogging represents the intersection of personal and ecological health.
A new study from scientists in China suggests that medical devices could one day restore vision to the blind.
The ever-elusive “soft” skills tied to a high emotional intelligence (EQ) remain a key differentiator between wildly successful employees and ones who may struggle to effectively collaborate with their peers. […]
One of astronomy’s most iconic sights in an artifact of faulty optics. Here’s how a new, great design will overcome it. When you look out at the greatest images of the […]
More overweight people are no longer trying to lose weight and the health implications are not good.
March 6 marked the 50th successful launch of SpaceX’s Falcon 9, which the company plans to soon use to send humans into space.
Experts can’t agree on exactly when or where, however.
So-called ‘positive stress’ has been growing in popularity among Silicon Valley workers.
The 168th known tardigrade—a.k.a “water bear” or “moss piglet”—species can even reproduce in the lab.
In the quantum world of the unstable, even identical particles don’t have identical masses. In the microscopic world of the quantum particle, there are certain rules that are wholly unfamiliar […]
Gender is burdened by a lot of adjectives these days. It’s non-binary, it’s fluid, it’s ‘over’. According to the American rapper Young Thug, an artist at the helm of hip-hop […]
Researchers use a cutting-edge technique to restore activity to the fragile X syndrome gene.
Since 2016, the exoplanet Proxima b has been a top candidate in the search for alien life. But new findings show that a stellar flare might have scorched that hope entirely.
Friedrich Nietzsche is an influential thinker, but he is not without critics. One of the best of them is British philosopher Bertrand Russell.
A number of important women are working outside mainstream media to build platforms that address the gray areas in challenging topics.
After a 16 year wait, the star SO-2 will speed past our galaxy’s supermassive black hole at 2.5% the speed of light. It will be the first-of-its-kind test of Einstein’s […]
A recent study from Ontario measured the brain waves of improvisational jazz pianists, finding that the more training they had, the more creative they were rated.
Can female nudity ever be empowering?
The cumulative effect of plastics is taking its toll on the world. So supermarkets are starting to cut it out.
This discovery could lead to not only a better understanding of our evolution but to new treatment options for schizophrenics.
DST has implications on our history, our health, and even our chances of being the victim of a crime.
Truly a negative week in terms of the comments on our Facebook. Maybe have some fruit and some sunshine next week?
Sure, you love your dog. But do you love your dog enough to spend $50,000 on a cloned version of your dog that in all likelihood won’t act like your departed pal?
For Women’s History Month we have a list of seven all women teams who changed history. Some were scientists, some soldiers, some living, and some long gone. All of them shaped the world.