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Jordan Peterson is one of the most controversial public figures in recent years. Here’s a recap of some of his ideas.

A new study from the Great Recession shows that anxiety around money is not helping us. How do we stop worrying?

Dark matter is our leading theory for a reason. New, detailed studies of the smallest galaxies could kill off the most studied alternative. When you look out at the Universe, […]

In General Relativity, even space and time themselves aren’t what they seem. Gravity might have been the first fundamental force ever discovered, but in many ways, it remains the least-well understood. […]

Granted, genetic manipulation has been a dream for decades. Here’s what is different now.

Professional learning programs are important to any business or organization because they help to enhance your existing workforce by instilling new knowledge and skills. When it comes to creating learning […]

Artificial intelligence will soon be powerful enough to operate autonomously, how should we tell it to act? What kind of ethics should we teach it?

It took hundreds of thousands of years to make atoms for the first time. If things were just a little different, it could have taken an eternity. When it comes […]

CEO pay is based on…well, I don’t really know what. But it’s almost never based on performance, and many CEOs fail miserably while collecting a huge paycheck. Not Elon Musk.

To better understand our place in the world, check out these groundbreaking books. 

Digging deeper into last week’s revelations about the Red Planet.

More overweight people are no longer trying to lose weight and the health implications are not good.

New studies show that energy drinks and junk food adversely affect the developing brain in numerous ways. 

Figure skating has a lot to do with physics, and here’s what we mean. Also, what’s the difference between all those figure-skating jumps?

Shortly after the Big Bang, the Universe became completely dark. The first stars, when they ignited, changed everything. For perhaps 100 million years, the Universe was devoid of stars. The […]

Emotional intelligence can have massive benefits for any organization, but why? How do we maximize our groups’ EQ?

A new Pew Research study shows how widely varied belief in what God, or a higher power, actually is.

Psychology professor Frank T. McAndrew writes that the type of ghost you see depends on the religion you have faith in. 

What does it really mean when something is “Dickensian”? Or “Kafkaesque”? Sometimes these words are overused to the point where they lose their meaning. Here’s how these and 6 other words got their origin. 

Optical computers would be extremely fast, more energy efficient, and could store far more information than electronic ones.

Infographics look at jobs 95% likely to be taken by robots and the working hours that will be lost.

Everything you wanted to know about black holes, supernova, and quasars but were afraid to ask.

Over the past week, former employees at Facebook and other companies have revealed how tens of millions of users’ data has been harvested and passed along to outside parties.

A new survey and study compares beliefs about creation with a person’s scientific understanding and finds that the more one knows, the greater the chances are of accepting evolution as fact.

In this brave new world, innovative synthetic beverages will be able to deliver all the desirable and none of the negative effects of booze.

Device uses ultrafast “frequency hopping” and data encryption to protect wireless signals from being intercepted and jammed.rn

Lack of replication is a serious problem in science. So far, no one has an answer.

The first detections were incredible. But now the real fun — and the real science — truly begins. On August 17, the signals from two merging neutron stars reached Earth after a journey of 130 […]

What the region’s train network would look like if all plans and proposals were realised

Even if it can’t detect them directly, we’ll learn the answer. Here’s how. Perhaps the most revolutionary find of the past generation, when we think about the Universe beyond Earth, is […]