Throughout Europe, 92 percent of children speak multiple languages. In America, that number is 20 percent.
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Jonathan Zittell Smith, the most influential scholar of religion of the past half-century, thought that religion “is created for the scholar’s analytic purposes.”
In July of 2018, there were 11 wildfires occurring north of the Arctic Circle. That’s more than ever before.
According to the study, for every extra day a student experienced sleep problems, they were 10% more likely to drop a course.
The ICARUS Initiative aims to track migratory animals from space using special transmitters and antennae. The data retrieved from the project will help us conserve biodiversity but has the potential to promote human well-being and prosperity, too.
Couples who had fish more than 8 times a menstrual cycle had a 47% shorter time getting pregnant than those who didn’t, and had 22% more sex than those that didn’t.
The ultimate fate of the universe is a mind-bogglingly thing to think about. So what’s the final outcome for it all?
The Universal Basic Income (UBI) movement has a major problem: nobody really knows how much it would cost to implement it.
A new survey of 1,021 Americans finds that we still have lots of questions and concerns about GMOs and that we don’t even really know when we’re consuming them.
Richard Feynman once asked a silly question. Two MIT students just answered it.
In General Relativity, even space and time themselves aren’t what they seem. Gravity might have been the first fundamental force ever discovered, but in many ways, it remains the least-well understood. […]
The Satanic Temple unveiled a statue of the occult idol Baphomet outside the Arkansas State Capitol building on Thursday to protest the Ten Commandments monument already on capitol grounds.
Accomplishments? Yes, Aretha Franklin had them.
Citing increasing student debt and the desire to see more family and pediatric physicians, the school might have started a trend.
After speaking with the world’s “top business leaders”, President Donald Trump has asked the SEC to study the potential impacts of removing rules that require companies to file reports with the agency every three months.
Space may be enormous, but collisions are inevitable. Here’s what happens when they occur. The Universe as we know it has been around for nearly 14 billion years: plenty of time […]
Vaccinations have saved countless lives and untold suffering, even though many adults still believe vaccines are bad for their children.
Out of 45 samples, glyphosate was present in all but two, and almost three-quarters of the samples were found to have glyphosate levels that exceeded the EWG’s ‘health benchmark’.
Want to go to school to learn how to mine in space? Now you can.
A new study discovers that engaging in back-and-forth conversations with a child builds stronger connections between two of their brains’ vital critical speech areas, regardless of socioeconomic status.
Over the past 70 years, the Roman Catholic Church in Pennsylvania has been covering up child sexual abuse by hundreds of priests, according to a new report issued by a grand jury on Tuesday.
The Thucydides Trap leads us to believe a U.S.-China war is inevitable. But is a 2,400-year-old school of thought really what the U.S. should base its foreign policy on?
A theory of history says America is in the grips of a crisis called “The Fourth Turning” that will change it forever.
Many school districts are switching over to a four day week. Is this a good idea?
Geneticists figure out how elephants keep from getting cancer.
Researchers at MIT believe they might have located the neural regions responsible for pessimism.
One of the most significant challenges in today’s increasingly fast-paced and demanding business world is figuring out how to balance growing workloads and personal time. A combination of long hours […]
The ices and rock aren’t green, and neither are the tails. So where does a comet’s green color come from? Every so often, with extreme regularity, comets will plunge from beyond […]
These maps offer a glimpse of what’s been lost – or rather, destroyed – by previous generations.
A new study used massive amounts of data from an online dating service to explore what makes someone desirable, and how people go about attracting partners online.