Dr. Jen Gunter debunks the most common myths about menstruation.
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Are fava beans and chianti really the best pairing for human liver?
Redemption is the journey towards becoming a better person. It’s the story of human life.
The Universe’s history, from cosmic inflation to the Big Bang to the present, is known. But whether it’s infinite or not is still a mystery.
The future belongs to complexity.
To understand others, you need to see past their fleeting emotions. You must perceive who they are as people.
Depression can cause you to think too much — and physically sense too little.
Although the Big Bang occurred at an instant in time long ago, we still see the light from it. Will the evidence ever disappear completely?
“How long someone thinks about [a] problem is a really good proxy of how humans behave.”
Known as hypervelocity stars, we originally thought just one would be ejected every 100,000 years. The real number is much greater.
Waistlines are expanding in most countries, except for a skinny list of nations bucking the trend.
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.
“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.
God is not a vending machine, but is it wrong to treat him like one?
Is “identity synthesis” the remedy for racial injustice? This political scientist says no.
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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.
Tech entrepreneur Alvin Wang Graylin sketches out a bold new age of AI-led enlightenment underscored by compassion.