The arctic research ship that captured the heart of the internet will NOT be named Boaty McBoatface. And the public is not happy about it.
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How much sleep you get and the quality of your sleep is important. Also, take a look at how your sleep stacks up against other countries.
A new study identifies key dietary factors that lead to healthy microbes in your gut.
Wikipedia collects its most unusual articles on a single, weirdly absorbing page.
13.8 billion years is a great number. But how sure are we of this, and how did we get there? “Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We […]
What does solar energy adoption look like across America? The cost of solar panels have gone down significantly, but state incentives maybe what’s most helping to drive this solar surge.
One psychologist’s quest to figure out one incredibly icky word
A new report says errors by medical personnel are the third leading cause of deaths in the U.S.
For a long time we’ve tried to polarize teamwork as either 100% positive or negative. But in truth there are ways it can be both.
Roam is one of a new subset of companies aimed at cultivating the coworking and coliving movements. Only now the horizon is abroad.
Bored by “Citizen Kane”? Looking back from our era of psychologically messed up lead characters (think Bryan Cranston’s Walter Whitein Breaking Bad), Vertigo seems decades ahead of its time.
Baba Ramdev has built a $670 million company on the back of yoga’s soaring popularity. Is his ethics in alignment with yoga’s teachings?
In her visual album, Beyonce tells a personal story which she shares with many black women. Lemonade takes us on a journey from past to future.
Though your chronological age records the passage of time, your biological age records what’s happening inside you.
You know how, when you cook one of your favorite meals, humans express their satisfaction with “Mmmm” and, “Lovely!” and other vocalizations? Turns out, gorillas do something like that, too.
Newton thought it was instantaneous, but the story is much richer than that! “The fact that gravitational damping is measured at all is a strong indication that the propagation speed of […]
New research produces surprising results about which animals are the smartest.
Parents’ own fears are restricting their kids freedom, and it’s not a good thing.
Flexible work schedules aren’t the rarity that they used to be. Some of the biggest companies now allow their employees to set their own schedules, with pretty interesting results.
Star-crossed lovers is one thing. But what if you are allergic to your significant other’s saliva or other bodily fluids?
If tattoos had always been as popular as they are today, here is what Charles Darwin, Henry V, Lord Nelson, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama might have inked.
About the ethical and legal issues surrounding post-mortem sperm collection.
Think we’d never do better from the ground than from space? This adaptive optics system is proving this wrong! “This event marks the culmination of many years of hard work on […]
A program called Cultivating Awareness and Resilience in Education helps teachers deal with stress. It also helps them better handle everyday situations in the classroom.
The answer depends on what scales you’re looking at. “The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.” –Swami Vivekananda When it comes to the fundamental laws […]
New research shows the benefits of sixty seconds of high-intensity exercise. While the study is valid, the mentality that a minute is enough is misguided.
Bikeshare has been around for almost 10 years now, but there have never been any deaths. Researchers look into the reasons why.
New research on social relationships looks at how our many friends are divided. It turns out the closest circle of acquaintances is pretty small.
A small animal shuts down CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest scientific instrument, right before an experiment to detect new particles.
There’s been a lot of talk among Republican candidates Ted Cruz and Donald Trump about completing the United States-Mexico border fence. But completing the wall has consequences outside of human politics.