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President Barack Obama is giving away a special holiday gift to inmates.
A concern with quiet students’ well-being should not push us back to outdated educational models.
How the “hierarchy problem,” or why gravity is so much weaker than everything else, might be the key to the entire Universe. “I just think too many nice things have […]
It’s the rebels among us that change the world.
In Munich last week, physicists and philosophers debate what makes for a scientific theory. Surprisingly, no one agrees. This piece was written by Sabine Hossenfelder. Sabine is a theoretical physicist specialized […]
Not water, not ice, and definitely not aliens. Here’s how we know. “You are the salt of the earth. But remember that salt is useful when in association, but useless in […]
Neither astronomers nor native Hawaiians are to blame, but it’s up to everyone to get it right moving forward. “The cause of Hawaiian independence is larger and dearer than the life […]
When the news doesn’t tell you everything.
An experiment from the 1920s explains why cliffhangers are so compelling and starting a task is often the most important part.
Freud was much more than the Id and Oedipus, and he may be the answer to today’s problems.
Pretty soon, these maps may be as dated as the Bing Crosby song
The Fed slowly removes the training wheels.
A New York legal case could impact us all.
Getting people to like you has never been easier.
Elon Musk wants to shoot us back and forth from work at 750 miles per hour.
What if overeager parents took a step back from pushing their kids toward good colleges?
The values of the sharing economy are nothing new to older demographics.
Before there was Cruise, Stallone, and Schwarzenegger, there was Douglas Fairbanks.
A group of researchers from MIT has thought of what the next anonymous network might look like.
Alleged deserter Bowe Bergdahl is the subject of this season’s popular podcast Serial and he practically confessed to desertion on it.
Life on Earth may not be the only way. But could it be this different? This article is written by Jillian Scudder, currently a postdoctoral researcher at Sussex in the […]
Insufficient commitments to carbon cuts, and a process to encourage deeper cuts that is only voluntary, are bad news for our future.
The Mexican census looks a little different this year.
Drone owners have some new regulations this holiday season.
Do you have what it takes?
A future of renewable energy can be ours.
These kids are living on the edge, keeping their struggle on the DL. Here’s what we can do to help.