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Mark Zuckerberg has infamously downplayed Facebook’s responsibilities as a business in the content creation space. Instead, he defends it as a technology platform.
Religious literacy can help us to ‘disagree better.’
Research suggests that your name affects the level of success you’ll achieve in your career and love life, and even where you choose to live.
Doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital have completed the most complex penis transplant to date, marking the third-ever successful operation of its kind.
Atheism has been called many things over the years. Is it a cult, and what is a cult anyway?
Organizations at every level seek to have the best possible leadership within their ranks. They often are willing to spend extra time, money, and effort to train their employees. Having […]
Just one equation relates the expansion of space to all the matter and energy we have. If you know this, you can know the fate of the Universe. Last week, […]
What do luck, death, and Texas have in common? They’re all part of our weekly random fact roundup.
What do all conspiracy theorists have in common?
The IAU has just approved a dozen new names for features on Pluto’s moon Charon. They draw from an array of famous authors, characters, mythical objects and one U.S. filmmaker.
Scientists have identified an alternative DNA structure described as a “twisted knot” inside living human cells. They’re calling it the i-motif.
There have already been more gun deaths from mass school shootings this century than during the entirety of the last century.
Earth Day is over for this year, but what it means for our future is still being talked about.
The picture itself is breathtaking. But what we learn is truly eye-opening. Galaxy clusters, like the massive one captured here by Hubble, PLCK G004.5–19.5, impress not just for their looks, […]
We need a public mature enough to recognize that policy decisions and actions are more relevant to leadership than professed beliefs.
While today profuse sweating is a social embarrassment, in the past it gave us an evolutionary advantage.
When humans die out or leave Earth because of climate change, cows may be the biggest (and most widespread) animal left, thereby inheriting the planet.
After Beyoncé’s landmark Coachella performance, a look back at the biggest musical stars ever. It’s impossible to pick just one as the biggest, but fun to try.
You might think conspiracies that say everything that happens is caused by a group of the powerful are a modern phenomenon. Karl Popper says they are two thousand years old.
In the far future, the last star burns out, stellar corpses get violently ejected, and galaxies accelerate away. And then the fun begins. For centuries, the biggest questions about our Universe […]
What is the Scully Effect? It’s no coincidence that female fans of ‘The X-Files’ are inspired to choose careers in STEM fields.
Infographics present the latest NHTSA statistics on the likelihood of having a fatal accident while commuting to and from work.
Our understanding of the universe has expanded tremendously in the last few decades. But there are still some mysteries out there, and the Great Attractor is one of them.
Hubble telescope celebrates 28 years of being a space sleuth with these dazzling images of the Lagoon Nebula, 4,000 light-years away.
What’s Eminem doing in Missouri? Kanye West in Georgia? And Wiz Khalifa in, of all places, North Dakota?
Just because humans wouldn’t do well over there doesn’t mean there aren’t incredible chances for life. For nearly 30 years, scientists have been discovering planets beyond our Solar System: the exoplanets […]
Are all those drunk animals on YouTube actually drunk? Zoologist Lucy Cooke examines what’s really going on when animals go, er, wild.
The global population is becoming more diverse. As a result, if companies in developed economies don’t diversify their hiring, they may lose out on crucial talent. Cryptocurrencies are here to help.
On April 20, Nintendo will release Labo, a new gaming system that tasks kids with creating interactive games with cardboard cutouts and the Nintendo Switch.