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Gender studies are leaving the college halls and heading into the lab. Increasingly, there have been more rigorous studies into how transgender people neurologically relate to the sex they identify with rather than their biological sex.
The quest for the cause of the cosmos is an ancient quest. Neil Turok offers a fascinating new theory.
Only 5-15% of the World Ocean’s floor has been mapped. This herculean effort is set to tackle our planet’s last frontier.
NYU researchers may have finally put to rest the mystery of how speech is processed in the brain.
Do a little less in your day if you want to do a little more.
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Why invest real money in digital coin? Because the payoff a decade from now could be enormous.
And other big questions we explored on our first day at the World Science Festival.
Believe it or not, our eating habits are influenced by what music is playing and other forces that we may not be consciously aware of.
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When we see problems in the world, we're quick to blame someone—anyone—who should be providing peace, love, and harmony. But the universe actually bends toward chaos and decay.
A record-breaking 515 contestants competed in the 2018 Scripps National Spelling Bee where they faced words like Soubresaut, Condottiere, and Amyloid.
Vision restoration is the main goal, but the CustomFlex Artificial Iris could also be used for cosmetic purposes.
An eighth-grader from the Dallas area in the winner of the 2018 Scripps National Spelling Bee after correctly spelling words like condottiere, ankyloglossia, and jagüey.
“Our country doesn’t do many things well, but when it comes to big occasions, no one else comes close,” so claimed an instructor I heard at the gym this week. […]
Walking all over the English countryside picking up trash, the genitalia of the spotted hyena, and many other subjects comical and deadly serious.
Can we make progress in a world in which we don't trust our institutions?
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So you want to be starman? You're going to need a few things along the way. Three things to be precise, according to astronaut Chris Hadfield.
Walmart announced Wednesday that it will pay for its 1.4 million employees to attend college, a move that could help the company's tainted image.
Artificial intelligence will soon be powerful enough to operate autonomously, how should we tell it to act? What kind of ethics should we teach it?
Google Chrome boasts 310 million active users across the world, and it might just kill off the usage of passwords.
Professional learning programs are important to any business or organization because they help to enhance your existing workforce by instilling new knowledge and skills. When it comes to creating learning […]