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Experts assess what would happen if the U.S. and North Korea go to war.

The ‘Project Wing’ drone system is going to change life as we know it—and inadvertently fix all your storage problems. rn

Science (and life) keep hammering nails “into the coffin of the rational individual.” But rationalism and individualism still haunt and systematically mislead—even about where your mind is.

The theory could solve certain stubborn physics questions such as, where’s all the antimatter.

Life may not be a rarity after all, but the result of a certain set of conditions.  

Stoicism and Buddhism are two of the oldest, and well known, schools of thought in the world. Would Marcus Aurelius, a famous Roman stoic, be a Buddhist today?

Health psychologist Kelly McGonigal discusses a three-step process to shift your mindset when anxiety creeps in.

After decades of research and analysis of geoscience data, the seventh largest geological continent officially exists.

These findings fit in with an overarching evolutionary theory on loneliness.

The hole in the ozone is shrinking, for sure, but to assess the whole layer, you need to look at the whole Earth. Throughout the history of life on Earth, there’s […]

An Ivy League education without the Ivy League price tag. 

Researchers tracked academic achievement, social cognition, executive function, and creativity in a longitudinal study of kids across the socioeconomic spectrum. 

In The Road to Character, David Brooks argues that our moral vocabulary is severely lacking.

NASA is close to testing its next-generation nuclear fission reactors that would power a Mars colony and propel space exploration.

It’s durable, exponentially scalable, and it’ll last millennia, if not millions of years.  

NASA discovers a surprisingly dark planet about 1,400 light years away.

“The human skin is a promising conduit for genetic engineering, as it is the largest and most accessible organ.”  

An anthropologist and a theologian walk into a room. The punchline is wise and wonderful.

Is “alloparenting” the end of family as we know it?  

It’s fascinating how an octopus’s skin does this and how these scientists recreated it.

Cute things are usually vulnerable, fragile, and weak. But cuteness itself is mighty indeed.  

Is “science broken” or self-correcting? And who is going to do the grown-up thing and fix the game (instead of scoring points within it)?

“Scientists should think like poets,” says E.O. Wilson, because new metaphors mobilize new thinking.

The finance sector often lives up to its bad reputation, but here’s how a 2000-year-old piece of wisdom can help rehabilitate the way people and corporations think about money.

Welcome to Star Trek: Discovery. From science to ethics and more, how does the new series’ debut stack up? “If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a […]

Do you ever act irrationally? You probably have. Let’s take a look at how to fix that. 

A proto-consciousness field theory could replace the theory of dark matter, one physicist states.   

ISIS, Hurricane Katrina, Fukushima—for each of these disastrous developments, there was someone with a bunch of data that no one would listen to.

Feversham Academy in Bradford, England has profoundly improved its students’ performance by adding a lot more music to their curriculum.