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Many women are unable to have children due to age restrictions on IVF. Dr. Dominic Wilkinson, Director of Medical Ethics at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, challenges the 4 most flawed arguments.
When companies hide algorithms from public view, the data are used for destructive purposes, warns Cathy O’Neil in her new book.
How does our perception of social status relate to health and success?
We might feel fuller, but eating foods marketed for “fullness” won’t prevent us from consuming more calories, even when we’re not hungry.
From a “faint smudge” to the most intricate objects in our galaxy, we’ve come an incredibly long way. “From our home on the Earth, we look out into the distances … to […]
Just imagining movement fires the same neurons as if we were actually moving. A new study shows we can wake our sleeping mind to practice motor skills in our dreams.
The idea of a world government has been a hot topic in the U.S. elections and throughout history.
This is the first evidence of any contact between ancient Greece and China.
We should be exploring the oceans as seriously as we explore space.
It used to be billions and billions, but now it’s in the trillions! “There are in fact 100 billion galaxies, each of which contain something like a 100 billion stars. […]
Might Armageddon come not from an asteroid or a comet, but by something completely unseen altogether? “Honestly, if you’re given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don’t say ‘what […]
Meteorologists propose a stunning new explanation for the mysterious events in the Bermuda Triangle.
Does life work like our technology? Is life under the hood just like a car sporting souped-up complexity?
Not as cheerful as your standard cartography – but you might learn a thing or two
A “needs statement” is the core element and guiding force for such an innovative endeavor, says Stanford Professor Paul Yock.
Spontaneous, deep talk on surprise topics. Author Jodi Picoult and host Jason Gots talk comic books, social justice, and why white Americans need to take the risk (and the consequences) of talking honestly about race and class privilege.
How open are you to your partner having sex with other people? The answer may depend on your age.
We’re ranked behind Saudi Arabia and Korea in empathy. Surprised?
Tesla’s Elon Musk gives a grave warning to those trying to hold back self-driving car technology. According to him, we have it all backwards.
How many galaxies are there in the observable Universe? For the first time, we don’t just have a ‘lower limit’ — we have an answer. “Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that […]
Psychologists suggests tactics for confronting offensive speech.
Christopher Hitchens argued that religion makes humans “extremely self-centered.”
A small, icy planet with a weirdly elliptical orbit has been discovered beyond Pluto.
A “magical probiotic mouthwash” may someday eradicate them, according to UC-San Diego researchers, whose research is leading them to a trigger in the microbiome.
Global warming is largely caused by carbon dioxide. Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory just figured out a way to change it into something better.
Scientists still don’t know, but the answer could hold the key to the expanding, accelerating Universe. “Scratch a cynic and you’ll find a disappointed idealist.” –Jon F. Merz When you […]
In ‘All the Real Indians Died Off,’ two scholars take longstanding myths about Native Americans to task.
Geneticists and cave paintings identify a lost species they puckishly name the “Higgs bison.”
This offers hope in the face of a disease which currently has no treatment option to halt its progression.