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By being someone else, and seeing and discovering the world through the eyes of other people, that can only increase our empathy… and decrease our own egocentric view of the world.

Think getting along with people that are nothing like you is hard? Here’s how astronauts do it, 254 miles above Earth on the ISS.

The planet has had life on it, in some form or another, for nearly as long as Earth has existed. If you came to our Solar System right after it formed, […]

The tech giants seem to be all in on blockchain.

NASA just cancelled its only lunar rover in development, despite President Donald Trump’s orders to expand lunar expeditions.

Scientists have been probing our solar system for extraterrestrial life.

So-called ‘positive stress’ has been growing in popularity among Silicon Valley workers.

The hard part was keeping the list down to ten.

The thick sheets of ice at these eight sites could provide the reservoir of water necessary for human expeditions to Mars. 

This asteroid is feeling itself, clearly.

A single, complete view of half the world was enough to teach us how these distant, frozen bodies work. On July 14, 2015, NASA’s New Horizons flew by Pluto. Pluto’s atmosphere, […]

There are a slew of Earth Science missions that NASA has planned for the future. We need all of them (and more) for a thriving planet. When most people think of […]

In the patent filed by Uber, it’s clear that the ride company’s A.I. software will use a number of data points to decide if a passenger is drunk—and how, then, to proceed.

Current climate change models are flawed when predicting the true cost to the world, new study says.

The world’s getting hotter, and it’s getting more volatile. We need to start thinking about how climate change encourages conflict.

The Earth is getting warmer, and humans are the cause. This is why. Let’s play pretend for a moment. Pretend, if you can, that you’ve never heard about the idea of […]

New insights into the role of water vapor may help researchers predict how the planet will respond to warming.

The Swift-Tuttle comet is the source of the lovely Perseid meteor shower each August. It’s also getting closer and closer, making it “the single most dangerous object known to humanity.”

The same technology that Norway uses to keep its fjords ice-free could literally take the power out of hurricanes as they form. Among all the natural disasters that occur on planet […]

We know that it’s ‘the red planet’ because of the iron in its soil. But why, with such a thin, carbon dioxide atmosphere, is the martian sky so red and bright? […]

Each year, lightning kills 24,000 people around the world. These maps show which regions get hit more than others.

Diamonds can be formed in one of four fascinating ways.

Events, entertainment, and transportation are literally being transformed during this year’s Olympics.

When scientists claim that an unexplained phenomenon might be due to aliens, they’re giving up on science. Whenever science discovers a new, unexpected phenomenon, it represents a tremendous opportunity to learn […]

International enrollment and applications to American grad schools are plummeting. This is the opposite of what makes America great. Throughout the 20th century and into the 21st, America emerged at the […]

It’s raining penguins!

Russian workers are being taught the art of smiling in order to seem more welcoming to the 1.5 million tourists expected to attend the 2018 FIFA World Cup this week […]

Elon Musk appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience for a conversation that covered topics ranging from the inner workings of neural link technology to the differences between a joint and a blunt.

Rock salt is great at keeping roads free of ice, but using it over the long term poses serious dangers.

The evidence of water vapor plumes on Europa is enough for NASA to plan a probe that will take samples in 5 to 10 years.