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The oldest people in our lives frequently shock us with hateful comments about others that seem out of character with the people we always thought they were. What’s going on?
Researchers study wolves in the area contaminated by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and what happens when they leave.
"One small step for man" costs a lot of money. Who's going to help pay the bill for the next bout of space exploration?
Many tech companies are introducing student-loan repayment assistance, in order to entice the best talent.
The fear of robots taking over our economy is unfounded. After all, this kind of disruption happens a lot more often, in the historical sense, than you might think.
An even better reason to eschew alpha-male office culture.
There are millions of asteroids in the solar system. A new study might tell us where they came from.
A new study from Harvard Business School finds open-office layouts actually inhibit face-to-face interaction and collaboration.
Dark energy is pushing distant galaxies apart from one another at an increasing rate. If the Big Rip hypothesis is true, things will only get worse from here. One of the […]
The philosophy of life from comedian, author, and woodworker Nick Offerman.
Desperation made their family, and others, try to escape their home country.
Psychopathy is a “wildly misunderstood corner of mental health research,” according to the author of a new study on psychopathy and attention mechanisms in the brain.
Biologists at the University of Bristol demonstrate how the mysterious phenomenon of spider ballooning for great distances and at great heights works.
In her vivid, dreamlike new book of short stories, Florida is a humid, seething organism that wants to eat you. Snake-infested. Full of sinkholes. A thing to resist, get lost in, surrender to, and sometimes, temporarily escape.
Tech titan Elon Musk is sending engineers from two of his companies to help the Thai government rescue 12 boys and their soccer coach who’ve been trapped in a cave for nearly two weeks.
A recent poll shows a third of Americans think another civil war is likely. How worried should we be?
In practice, no one has ever developed a democracy that works particularly well if judged in absolute terms. But all the alternatives so far have been worse.
The rate at which the Universe has expanding has changed tremendously in 13.8 billion years. So why do we call it the Hubble constant? The Universe is an enormous place, […]
A little kindness goes a long way. Not being mean goes longer.