Researchers for the U.S. military are studying salamanders and other animals to discover how they can regrow lost body parts.
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The world today is far more complex than it was 200 years ago, but the speeches and writings of the Founding Fathers point to a common general principle.
The off-kilter war of words between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un reminds us of better, funnier insults.
The findings of this study are stunning: in a 16-hour waking day, adults are sedentary for 12.3 hours.
New research at USC shows universal brain activity in the comprehension of stories for the first time.
“We don’t notice one another nearly as much as we think we do,” says Alan Alda. Here’s how the actor inspired a scientific study on empathy.
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In case you haven’t already heard of CRISPR-Cas9, it is the revolutionary gene-editing technology, discovered just a few years ago, that allows scientists to edit the DNA of any species […]
The study had some interesting findings for the adult children of separated parents who were civil.
Technology is allowing us to quantify exercise like never before, but turning activity into a game may be the most successful way to encourage fitness yet.
It’s always been our brains.
“Space-time is not as static as it appears, it’s constantly moving,” one researcher said.
A new study examines reasons behind the persistence of neuromyths.
An accidental discovery may lead to a vaccine-like treatment for depression and PTSD.
These may not be the only social predators that do.
Before we go venturing off to another star to look for life, why not look here? “If I had to describe myself to an alien I’d say I was bigger than […]
Journalists were once outsiders looking in, says Gay Talese, but today their proximity to Washington makes them myopic; they’d be wiser to disperse and keep their eyes on the horizon.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson is working in with video game developers to create a space exploration game called Space Odyssey.
Researchers at Human Longevity have developed technology that can generate images of individuals face using only their genetic information. But not all are convinced.
They’re the fastest rotators of all. So how distorted are they? There are very few objects in the Universe that stand still; almost everything we know of rotates in some way. […]
If atmospheric hazes can cool the distant ice dwarf by an extra 30 degrees Celsius, maybe we can geoengineer a solution to our warming problem? When NASA’s New Horizons flew by […]
This conceptual framework is the most advanced representation of human emotions to date.
A new study correlates personality type with sleeping position, with infographics
19% of American soldiers returned from Vietnam addicted to heroin. 95% of them recovered without relapse. How?
Many sci-fi technologies will remain in the realm of fiction unless physics changes. But some experiments could uncover just that! “Imagination makes us aware of limitless possibilities. How many of us […]
In our modern, increasingly globalized world, organizations both large and small are being tasked with managing ever more diverse workforces. As our understanding of diversity evolves, we see it in […]
The researcher behind some well-known gender studies is accused of making them all up.
Health psychologist Kelly McGonigal discusses a three-step process to shift your mindset when anxiety creeps in.
A study finds that happen music enhances divergent thinking, and thus, creativity.
Haseef Rafiei, a young Malaysian architect, had a thought one day: what if we could convert the real estate industry into an automated vending system?
Scientists are calling the results of such fortifications “bionicomposites.”