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Many of our greatest fears stem from uncertainty about the future, and technology has made the future very uncertain indeed.
We all want to help our children learn and a new study shows that encouraging curiosity might be the best way to do it.
It can be hard to understand why a person would be an atheist. Bertrand Russell is here to help.
Although there is much guesswork as to the future of artificial intelligence, today’s AI systems continue to be a boon for science.
Dylan McWilliams was bit by a shark in Hawaii less than a year after being bit by a bear in Colorado. What are the odds? There’s an old saying out there […]
Each year, lightning kills 24,000 people around the world. These maps show which regions get hit more than others.
People across eras, religions, and cultures have always been curious about a spiritual world that exists behind the curtain of death.
The highest paid athlete in history does not live in modern times. That person lived in Ancient Rome.
Religious literacy can help us to ‘disagree better.’
Research suggests that your name affects the level of success you’ll achieve in your career and love life, and even where you choose to live.
As we’ve come to expect, conspiracy theorists and fringe Christian evangelicals are heralding the July 27 blood moon as a sign of the imminent apocalypse. But what is the blood moon prophecy, and why does it appeal to a certain type of believer?
A new study shows that teenagers are increasingly experimenting with marijuana before beer or cigarettes. Is that a good thing?
Somewhere out there, perhaps in another place and time, there’s a person who looks like your identical twin stranger — at least to an untrained observer.
Gazing upon the red, blood Moon during totality is only part of the wonders awaiting you. On July 27, 2018, the longest total lunar eclipse of the century took place. Totality […]
The West has been doing well scientifically for a few hundred years now, but it took almost a thousand years for it to catch up to the Middle East. Here are ten of the biggest discoveries the Islamic world got first.
Research with other species lends weight to these findings.
Ingvar Kamprad may be the most influential aesthete in the history of interior design, thanks to the mass-produced and self-assembled furniture created by his company, Ikea.
New studies show that energy drinks and junk food adversely affect the developing brain in numerous ways.
When we call something ugly, we say something about ourselves – and what we fear or dread.
Philosophers often get depicted like sages in ivory towers without a practical or human side. A gossip-filled book from the 3rd century can fix that.
A longtime debate over Buddhism’s religiosity has drawn a line between metaphysics and action.
The Large Hadron Collider allowed us to complete the Standard Model. Even so, what we have is incomplete. Here’s what could come next. The Large Hadron Collider is the most powerful […]
A new study highlights how blockchain technology can be a game-changer in education.
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 […]
Generally people drink to either increase positive emotions or decrease negative ones.
A study reveals the unexpected financial benefits of joining a fraternity.
A new study links heavy alcohol usage with dementia. Other research finds that soon we might not be able to tolerate alcohol at all.
“People need to see something of a balance between effect and cause… that if something has a huge evil effect, it should be the result of a huge evil cause.”
A new study links multiple sex partners and smoking to head and neck, or oropharyngeal, cancer.