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America continues to tread water in healthcare and education while other countries have enacted reforms to great effect.

Thoughtful advice on how to manage a volatile market.

In all the years of NASA, we’ve never touched the Sun before. Here’s why it’s so hard. This past weekend, NASA successfully launched the Parker Solar Probe: the first spacecraft that […]

All humans have a mindful capability for creative thought. Unleashing it is dependent on how we’re taught to go about the creative process.

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft taught us more than we ever imagined about Saturn. Could we do something similar for Uranus and Neptune? From where we are in the Solar System, looking out […]

‘Medicare for all’, also known as Single Payer Health Care, will be hotly debated this year, and more and more U.S. voters support the idea.

Elon Musk revealed some new details about the early stages of the Boring Company’srnplans to transform the mass-transit system in Los Angeles.

“History matters, and we now know that hysteresis is part of the answer,” wrote the author of a recent study.

It could put the American fossil fuel industry on a clear path to extinction.

If particles weren’t also waves, the Sun would never achieve nuclear fusion. Without quantum mechanics, life on Earth would never have come to exist. The greatest source of newly-produced energy in […]

Swiss researchers identify new dangers of modern cocaine.

It might not be a great idea to chug a whole box of Arm and Hammer, but a small daily dose could do wonders for keeping your autoimmune system in check.

Maybe, but that probably doesn’t mean what you think it does. Of all the unsolved puzzles in the Universe, perhaps the most confounding is the dark matter problem. If we look […]

Finding your own truth without a guiding mythical worldview.

As long as we fail to name capitalism as a key cause of mass extinction, we will remain powerless to break its tragic story.

The Pew Research Center has classified Americans into seven distinct religious types.

A semi-scientific test of touchscreen kiosks in eight McDonald’s restaurants in the U.K. have caused alarm that microbiologists say is unwarranted.

The road from dropout to billionaire is more of a detour than a highway.

Are we sure this isn’t alien technology?

Once again, our circadian rhythm points the way.

Scientists at NASA are currently developing methane-creating robots to overcome this challenge.

Antibiotics or anti-inflammatory drugs may help combat lung cancer.

The probe, no larger than a car, will be the closest a man-made object has ever gotten to the sun. We will be able to study and see it like we’ve never seen it before.

A Chinese researcher has sparked controversy after claiming to have used gene-editing technology known as CRISPR to help make the world’s first genetically modified babies.

America’s socialists owe a lot to one man, but what did he think about socialism?

Cephalopods like the octopus could have originated from outside of our solar system, possibly coming to Earth as hitchhikers frozen inside comets and meteors.

It’s not what you have, it’s what you do with it.

The controversial herbicide is everywhere, apparently.

Home network Porch has created infographics that depict the most dangerous kitchen items according to the 2017 U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s National Electronic Injury Surveillance System.