NASA’s Chandra X-ray observatory has shown us the Universe like nothing else ever before. When it comes to the Universe, it mainly generates X-rays through high-temperature heating. X-rays from Chandra reveal […]
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Radio-frequency signals can be used to track peoples’ movements in their own homes.
The Pew Research Group conducted a survey on the most important life skills to several thousand Americans. Here’s what they said.
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If you’re lacking confidence and feel like you could benefit from an ego boost, try writing your life story.
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We know the dangers of too little sleep. Now for the other side of the story.
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In the mid-20th century, ‘physical cosmology’ was considered an oxymoronic joke. Today, it’s Nobel-winning science. Imagine you wanted to know everything you could about the Universe. You’d want to find […]
Having these financial life skills can help you navigate challenging economic environments.
Explore McLuhan’s theory on print culture and its influential hold over civilization.
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Scientists are developing liquid metal or “electric blood” that can move and form 2D shapes. This may revolutionize the field of soft robotics.
Our egotism and self-confidence can sometimes spill-over to our loved ones.
The first list of antidepressant food scores restructures the “standard” American diet.
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The past 300,000 years occurs in the blink of a cosmic eye, but it’s meant everything to humanity. The history of humanity was anything but inevitable. Although the Universe created […]
Nurturing several relationships at once can empower us to build a life so rich that when we lose one love among many, we don’t feel as if we’ve lost ‘everything.’
Across the world, companies are experimenting with shorter workweeks — is it working?
Almost 200 cognitive biases rule our everyday thinking. A new codex boils them down to 4.
50 years ago, Apollo 9 launched. Without it, we never would’ve landed on the Moon. The Apollo program is most famous for its greatest achievement: taking humanity to the Moon. It […]
Despite what you may have heard, they don’t suck anything in at all. Black holes are some of the strangest, most wondrous objects in all the Universe. With huge amounts of […]
Scientists at Stanford Medicine recently observed that some mice recovered from strokes better than others, leading them to wonder whether or not they could find evidence that specific genes played […]