We should care about constitutional rights for all, says lawyer and religious freedom scholar Asma T. Uddin. If they are denied for some, history demonstrates how they may be at risk for us all.
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Scientists from John Hopkins find a material for quantum computing.
When we look at some of the companies with notoriously bad customer service, like Comcast, Bank of America, or United Airlines, it could be tempting to say that good customer […]
In the mid-20th century, ‘physical cosmology’ was considered an oxymoronic joke. Today, it’s Nobel-winning science. Imagine you wanted to know everything you could about the Universe. You’d want to find […]
The results have startling implications about the evolution of psychopathy in humans.
According to recent papers by Zucman, and his colleague Emmanuel Saez, one should be implemented.
Could this be the beginning of the end of insulin injections?
If you think that the Moon is only good for reflecting sunlight, you’ve got another think coming. To human eyes, the Moon is the second brightest visible object, trailing only the […]
Orgasms don’t always mean a sexual encounter is positive, find psychologists.
When adults are challenged to behave like adults, by a child, they can go in one of two directions.
Though what constitutes “getting old” for women in America has been a moving target throughout US history, it has rarely been a picnic. But our history’s also full of women who have raised hell and pushed back in a hundred different ways against the cultural and literal corsets America keeps trying to stuff them into.
It’s much more complex a question than dividing its mass by the volume of the event horizon. If you want to get a meaningful answer, you have to go deep. If […]
“On the spectrum from worry to action, parents can choose to act,” a new report states.
A harrowing new report by the CDC should serve as a wake-up call.
Most of it was eaten by Earth’s mantle, but scraped-off bits survive in the Alps and other mountain ranges.
Recent years have seen countries across the African continent investing deep into the tech industry. Rwanda is angling to get ahead of the pack.
When it comes to remembering the kids of your generation, don’t always trust your memory.
A new book by constitutional attorney Andrew Seidel takes on Christian nationalism.
Can rock climbing help rocket scientists?
It doesn’t hurt to be quick, responsive, friendly, efficient, or reliable. But for A. G. Lafley, former CEO of Procter & Gamble, the most important ingredient to making your customers […]
When these particles are eaten by earthworms, the results are not good.
There’s an enormous evolutionary advantage for flamingos to stand on one leg, but only physics explains why. Of all the natural marvels unique to planet Earth, the diversity of the living […]
How does gratitude work its mental magic?
New technology offers us a look at the green future of aviation and cargo shipping.
A single typo in the “dark matter” of the genome drives multiple types of cancer.
For decades, Americans sprayed the notorious pesticide DDT all over their homes and fields. But it turns out we may have known about — and ignored — a safer alternative used by the Nazi regime.
Or, quite possibly, is it more complex than either one of those scenarios? If there’s one lesson that humanity should have learned from the 20th century, it’s this: the Universe […]
How an off-the-radar Nobel Prize brings us ever nearer to finding a major cure.
“We seem to be racing toward a new configuration of government and industry without having fully thought through all of the implications,” Steve Aftergood, director of the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists, told MIT Technology Review.