A new report shows that the true costs of war are much higher than reported by the Pentagon.
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How to overcome anxiety in a time that tries men’s souls.
From millions of miles to millions of light years, there’s nothing else that leaves trails like this. When you point your telescope at the distant Universe, observing a faint, massive object […]
Researchers believe they have enough evidence to support the “kelp highway hypothesis.”
One day in 1995, a large, heavy middle-aged man robbed two Pittsburgh banks in broad daylight. He didn’t wear a mask or any sort of disguise. And he smiled at […]
In our modern, increasingly globalized world, organizations both large and small are being tasked with managing ever more diverse workforces. As our understanding of diversity evolves, we see it in […]
Do you know you Hangzhous from your Changzhous?
The differences between what you are and what you could be are stunning. The human body consists of somewhere around 1028particles, all bound together. The typical human has a mass […]
DEFCON hackers find it’s really easy to hack U.S. voting machines.
Charisma comes down to two things.
Most marriages end in resentment. Why should longevity be the sole marker of a successful marriage?
We know that body language reveals a lot. But language is an even bigger tell if you know what to look for.
This is the oldest fossil ever found belonging to the line that leads to us.
Our empathy is getting better, but universal? No way.
NASA and SETI invite the public to nickname a small icy world, or pair of worlds, in the distant Kuiper Belt ahead of a New Horizons 2019 flyby.
A new study explains why some people seem to be better than others at ridding their minds of intrusive thoughts.
For just a year’s worth of US Military budget, we could transform the world. The United States spends more on military spending than the next ten nations combined: an estimated $600 […]
Wow. Reading Hawking’s Ph.D. paper is like listening to Pink Floyd for decades and then suddenly finding out they had a different and even more groundbreaking debut album.
Music is our oldest and most cherished ritual. How we treat it is reflective of who we are.
These results may someday offer doctors an early warning biomarker for heart disease.
The idea is just as ‘crazy’ as Einstein telling us that time slows down at high speeds, or Darwin saying that our ancestors were apes.
A new survey reveals how satisfied employees of different tech companies are with their pay and whether they’d like to leave.
North Korea has a long history of making bellicose threats that defy global norms. So does that mean the country’s leaders are irrational, and will act irrationally?
The discovery of the first-ever asteroid to arrive from interstellar space is full of lessons for us all. On October 19th, astronomers discovered an objectunlike any other we’d seen before: a […]
Jellyfish have their tentacles all tangled up in our lives in ways we’re only dimly aware of.
Virtually every organization engages in some form of employee development and training. There are so many obvious benefits to training, such as ensuring that employees have specific skills or understand […]
There are plenty of questions we don’t know the answer to. With quantum gravity, they might be solved! This article is written by Sabine Hossenfelder. Sabine is a theoretical physicist specialized […]
Researchers tracked academic achievement, social cognition, executive function, and creativity in a longitudinal study of kids across the socioeconomic spectrum.
Here’s the number one factor for whether an organization is a success or a failure.
In The Hacking of the American Mind, Robert Lustig holds up a much needed mirror to our consumption habits.