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When you’re a genius, how do you make ends meet?

The first personality tests revolved around assessing people’s reactions to ambiguous and often unsettling images. Today, the gold standard is a barrage of questions.

The quadratic formula isn’t just something that teachers use to torture algebra students. The Babylonians once used it to calculate taxes.

Every December, the Geminid meteor shower reaches its peak. Its 2021 show will be spectacular, but only if you do it right.

She helped create CRISPR, a gene-editing technology that is changing the way we treat genetic diseases and even how we produce food.

There may be thousands of undiscovered mammal species in the world. Most are small, like bats and rodents, but there could be primates, too. A lifeline for Bigfoot enthusiasts?

A wild, compelling idea without a direct, practical test, the Multiverse is highly controversial. But its supporting pillars sure are stable.

In each of our minds, we draw a demarcation line between beliefs that are reasonable and those that are nonsense. Where do you draw your line?

The majority of the matter in our Universe isn’t made of any of the particles in the Standard Model. Could the axion save the day?

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Humans who’ve lived through the same events often remember them differently. Could quantum physics be responsible?

Life is governed by unspoken rules. How do you know you’re following them correctly?

The more social behaviors a voice-user interface exhibits, the more likely people are to trust it, engage with it, and consider it to be competent.

Did you know that shifting to a positive perspective on aging can add 7.5 years to your life? Or that there is a provable U-curve of happiness that shows people get happier after age 50?

We can do so much more, so much faster, with the same data. When you think about how astronomy works, you probably think about observers pointing telescopes at objects, collecting data […]

There’s an extra source of massive “stuff” in our Universe beyond what gravitation and normal matter can explain. Could light be the answer?

It’s “the biggest blow to the war on drugs to date,” said Kassandra Frederique, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance.

Sir Ken Robinson died on August 21 of cancer at the age of 70.

The famous social robot is about to start rolling off the assembly line.

Think you can hide your feelings pretty easily?

The laws of physics state that you can’t create or destroy matter without also creating or destroying an equal amount of antimatter. So how are we here?

Planet Earth has been around for over 4.5 billion years, but humans? For 99.998% of our planet’s history, humans were nowhere to be found.

Can a war be won from the air? A group of renegade pilots in the 1930s thought so.

Everything is made of matter, not antimatter, including black holes. If antimatter black holes existed, what would they do?

Their ear structures were not that different from ours.

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According to Sigmund Freud, our revulsion at taboos is an attempt to suppress a part of us that actually wants to do them.

Scientific pluralism is the notion that some questions must be approached from many angles. How can we integrate these scientific models?

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How can researchers map something as complex as the human brain?