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At least one of Earth’s creatures is able to survive the vacuum of space.
Anyone can have a bad day at work, but not everyone scores this high on narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism.
College students once stood out from the pack on IQ tests. Today, they’re about average.
Our brains did not evolve to shop on Amazon.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Swiss Enlightenment philosopher who praised a simple life and inspired the worst of the French Revolution.
Predictive power has perverse, anti-democratic consequences. So be a good citizen and lie to election pollsters.
A great many cosmic puzzles still remain unsolved. By embracing a broad and varied approach, particle physics heads toward a bright future.
New tech is a double-edged sword. Integration can be expensive and perilous: Mess up the adoption and jobs are on the line.
There are plenty of alternatives to spending a fortune on employee training programs. These 10 options are a great place to start.
As early as we’ve been able to identify them, the youngest galaxies seem to have large supermassive black holes. Here’s how they were made.
Where do you place precious brain resources?
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In numerous cultures worldwide, women were just as involved in bringing home the prehistoric bacon as their male counterparts.
The zebras were originally part of a newspaper tycoon’s private zoo. Now they roam the San Simeon grasslands, growing in numbers.
There are many ways asynchronous learning benefits both individuals and organizations, from learner autonomy to cost savings.
It’s the ultimate setup for a Thanksgiving Day disaster. The physics of water and its solid, liquid, and gas phases compels us not to do it.
All forms of energy affect the expanding Universe. But if matter and radiation slow the expansion down, how does dark energy speed it up?
Science has come a long way since Mary Shelley penned “Frankenstein.” But we still grapple with the same questions.
The electoral reform also known as instant-runoff voting promises bridge-building and broad appeal instead of culture war and gridlock.
You can lead an overconfident chatbot to expert knowledge, but can it actually learn and assimilate new information?
Some scientists think we should allow our bodies to more harmlessly live with pathogens until they’re cleared from our systems.
We need more data centers for AI. Developers are getting creative about where to build them.
Life arose on Earth early on, eventually giving rise to us: intelligent and technologically advanced. “First contact” still remains elusive.
Objective reality exists, but what can you know about it that isn’t subjective. According to some neuroscientists, not much.
“Not my circus, not my monkeys.”
From questionable shipwrecks to outright attacks, the Sentinelese clearly don’t want to be bothered.
You’ve probably noticed that most retailers use prices ending in 99. That’s intentional.
Finally, an AI that can drive a digital car as a goat.