In his final years, Martin Luther King, Jr. become increasingly focused on the problem of poverty in America.
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Rwanda is pioneering the regulation and use of drones – such as delivering blood
You can use these to get ahead, no matter your age.
Legislators push to keep cursive in their schools’ curricula, but experts seem split as to whether it’s necessary.
A wealthy team doesn’t automatically make for a successful team.
Buddhism and Western science converge on a number of ideas.
Cosmologists propose a groundbreaking model of the universe using string theory.
With a new data run coming in 2019 at unprecedented sensitivity, we might finally get our answers. Over the past three years, LIGO discovered ten independent instances of merging black holes […]
Even some teachers suffer from anxiety about math.
The legacy of Felix Dzerzhinsky, who led Soviet secret police in the “Red Terror,” still confounds Russia.
Ten of the most sandbagging, red-herring, and effective logical fallacies.
Research by neuroscientists at MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory helps explain how the brain regulates arousal.
Our attention is more than just a resource. It is an experience.
Is it “perverseness,” the “death drive,” or something else?
It’s up to us humans to re-humanize our world. An economy that prioritizes growth and profits over humanity has led to digital platforms that “strip the topsoil” of human behavior, whole industries, and the planet, giving less and less back. And only we can save us.
If everything in nature is made of quantum fields at its core, how do we wind up with particles at all? What is our Universe made out of? At a fundamental […]
A completely unexpected discovery beneath the ice.
It’s one factor that can help explain the religiosity gap.
It could put the American fossil fuel industry on a clear path to extinction.
With an assist from Einstein’s gravity and the power of the Hubble Space Telescope, it’s the brightest quasar we’ve ever discovered. In astronomy, there are two types of questions to […]
A growing body of research shows promising signs that the keto diet might be able to improve mental health.
Evolution doesn’t clean up after itself very well.
Failures are going to happen. That’s just the way things are. Beyond the thing that didn’t quite manage to work out, though, there’s more that can go off the rails, […]
It may create the conditions for further inequality.
Thinking your life is worthwhile is correlated with a variety of positive outcomes.
Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com, explains his plan for success.
It has already found several bizarre planets outside of our solar system.
Kepler showed us that the Universe is full of planets around other stars. TESS is giving us our next great leap. It’s been nearly a decade since NASA’s Kepler mission first […]