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Quarterback Tom Brady was initially overlooked by NFL scouts, but he had vast hidden reserves of character.
Scientists are notoriously resistant to new ideas. Are they falling prey to groupthink? Or are our current theories just that successful?
A true scientific view of if, where, and when extraterrestrial life exists is within our grasp thanks to biosignatures and technosignatures.
The minimum wage is a popular policy, but it’s not the only way governments have tried to help workers secure a decent living.
HaptX gloves provide high-fidelity touch feedback of virtual spaces (and they look cool, too).
An optical telescope with a massive 20-foot (6-meter) mirror has an eye-popping price tag of $11 billion.
Intrinsic motivation cannot be imposed on a team — but you can provide the right culture for it to flourish.
The common drug is called gabapentin, which is currently used to control seizures and manage nerve pain.
The ‘reasonable person’ represents someone who is both common and good.
Many contrarians dispute that cosmic inflation occurred. The evidence says otherwise.
Prison is an unreliable method of punishment. Let’s do better.
Executive advisor Tiffani Bova wants leaders to value their employees as much as their customers.
Here’s why the answer may forever elude scientists.
Like many of us, the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius hated waking up early, but his stoic philosophy always helped him get out of bed.
In the quest to measure how antimatter falls, the possibility that it fell “up” provided hope for warp drive. Here’s how it all fell apart.
Music and sounds only seem to reduce pain in mice when played at a specific volume.
If you want to understand the Universe, cosmologically, you just can’t do it without the Friedmann equation. With it, the cosmos is yours.
Our brains are hardwired to find fault. The best managers don’t let this steer how they interact with their team.
People admire complexity. Many attribute it to the work of superior minds, those with the skills or intelligence to wrangle challenging ideas into a workable—if not always comprehensible—whole. This esteem […]
Skepticism is appropriate when gazing into the futurist’s crystal ball.
Some physicists are besot with the multiverse, but if we can’t detect these other universes, how seriously should we take them?
UAP are no laughing matter anymore.
Recasting the iconic Carrington Event as just one of many superstorms in Earth’s past, scientists reveal the potential for even more massive eruptions from the sun.
Wealth concentration among elites was common in ancient nations, but the scale on which it took place in Egypt’s 18th Dynasty was unprecedented.
A controversial new philosophy paper tries to bring our moral prejudices to heel. Should it?
We’ve only seen Uranus up close once: from Voyager 2, back in 1986. The next time we do it, its features will look entirely different.
Gamma-ray bursts are among the most energetic cosmic events of all. On October 9, 2022, a remarkable one occurred: the brightest ever seen.