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Why Netflix adopted the “No Brilliant Asshole” rule — and how to make sure bullies don’t destroy teams.
Generative AI is arriving fast — both overtly and covertly — and without solid L&D guidance leaders and teams will be hobbled, argues Matt Beane.
Newborn stars are surrounded only by a featureless disk. Debris disks persist for hundreds of millions of years. So when do planets form?
The philosopher Skye C. Cleary explores what being authentically happy looks like in a world where so many can’t be.
In December 1968, human beings made their first-ever journey to the Moon aboard Apollo 8. Their most important discovery? Planet Earth.
Just being a pessimist, cynic, or apathetic doesn’t make you a nihilist.
“By 2040, we hope to see a number of new drugs that have been designed with AI reaching patients.”
Out beyond Neptune are some fascinating bodies left over from our Solar System’s formation. Could one of them truly be spectacular?
To know how to protect its astronauts, NASA needs to first understand the threat.
The acceptance of death is deeply embedded in our culture; it’s time to overthrow that idea.
Fixing chronic pain in the body may sometimes require a treatment focused on the brain.
God is not a vending machine, but is it wrong to treat him like one?
From forming bound states to normal scattering, many possibilities abound for matter-antimatter interactions. So why do they annihilate?
Female physicians tend to practice medicine as it should be practiced: with care and compassion.
While weltschmerz — literally “world-pain” — may be unpleasant, it can also spur us to change things for the better.
SARS-CoV-2 first emerged in humans in 2019. Despite much noise generated by lab leak proponents, the evidence indicates a natural origin.
Misinterpreted data may be distorting Western predictions about the future of China’s economy.
The benefits of learning with guidance are clear — but the expert and the novice must have a shared understanding of the goal.
On June 20, 2024, the summer solstice occurs at its earliest moment since 1796: when George Washington was President of the USA. Here’s why.
Recent research sheds light on how the brain overgeneralizes fear, causing people to be afraid of harmless situations.
An argument for emphasis on subjective experience.
Tech entrepreneur Alvin Wang Graylin sketches out a bold new age of AI-led enlightenment underscored by compassion.
When leaders embrace positive personal energy, everyone feels the benefits — in trust, innovation and creativity.
There are two different ways to measure the expansion rate of the Universe, and they don’t agree. And no, new measurements don’t help.
Is gravity weaker over distances of billions of light-years?
From Nick Carraway to Charles Marlow, these side characters offered truths their scene-stealing protagonists couldn’t.
The mindless implementation of AI tools can come at a cost for our teams. Here are some red flags and solutions.
A new all-time record! JWST’s discovery of JADES-GS-z14-0 pushes the earliest galaxy ever seen to just 290 million years after the Big Bang.
While GLP-1 agonists help people lose weight, different drugs could help them retain muscle at the same time.