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Talking to yourself seems to yield real benefits, from boosts in cognitive performance to improved emotional regulation.
The successful tactics of big-name leaders — including Bob Iger, Mary Barra, and Satya Nadella — reveal key approaches to innovation.
To reap the benefits of digital technologies, we must contend with their addictive designs.
This research team is working out how to detect extraterrestrial cells in the liquid water ocean hidden beneath Enceladus’s icy crust.
Quantum uncertainty and wave-particle duality are big features of quantum physics. But without Pauli’s rule, our Universe wouldn’t exist.
Luck doesn’t fall from the sky. It’s about how you position yourself for life’s challenges.
Within the “Dark Triad” of personality traits, narcissism exists on a confidence spectrum.
In the very early Universe, practically all particles were massless. Then the Higgs symmetry broke, and suddenly everything was different.
Is mathematics woven into the very fabric of reality? Or is it merely a product of the human mind?
Gods and angels have been replaced with hi-tech extraterrestrials.
The world needs a moral defense of progress based in humanism and agency.
Meg LeFauve and Dave Holstein drew inspiration from psychologists as well as their own children, becoming more understanding parents in the process.
It’s been 100 years since we discovered that the Universe was expanding. But if it’s expanding, then what is it expanding into?
A new book envisions an encounter of minds between the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, the physicist Werner Heisenberg, and the philosopher Immanuel Kant.
Fulfillment at work isn’t about finding your passion; it’s about cultivating the relationships that create a sense of belonging.
Astro Mechanica’s “turboelectric” jet engines offer a way to transform both commercial flights and space launches.
From bondage to freedom: Baruch Spinoza’s guide to the rational life.
A conservator from the Rijksmuseum explains how they went about investigating whether the painting is a genuine Rembrandt.
After turning up hundreds of genes with hard-to-predict effects, some scientists are now probing the grander developmental processes that shape face geometry.
Beyond stars, galaxies, and gravity, studying the fundamental workings of nature reveals widely applicable lessons for learners everywhere.
The mindless implementation of AI tools can come at a cost for our teams. Here are some red flags and solutions.
Holograms preserve all of an object’s 3D information, but on a 2D surface. Could the holographic Universe idea lead us to higher dimensions?
Giant particle accelerators aren’t a waste of money. They are essential for understanding the Universe.
With crisis management training, organizations can develop the agility to recover from crises with as little disruption as possible.
Some of them have survived the wilds of space for billions of years.
“Personality isn’t based on what we say we’ll do. It’s rooted in what we actually do, which becomes what we think about.”
“You’ll be able to fly twice as fast as a Boeing or Airbus, and it’ll be like the cost of flying business today.”
