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The fine Facebook just paid was huge, but many in tech say it wasn’t nearly enough to protect your data.
A case for looking beyond the planetary scientist’s (or even the astronomer’s) definition. Ever since 2006, when the International Astronomical Union (IAU) officially defined the term planet — introducing the term ‘dwarf […]
Try not to think about your hands. Now enjoy a few minutes of not being able to stop thinking about them.
As Chief Learning Officer at Degreed and former Chief Learning Officer at LinkedIn, Kelly Palmer has thought a lot about architecting effective learning environments for employees seeking to grow their […]
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Scientists have developed new ways of understanding how the biological forces of death drive important life processes.
An outbreak in the number of measles cases in the UK has resulted in the country losing its World Health Organization dedicated “measles-free” status. The culprits responsible for this decline: […]
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Forget Copenhagen, Many-Worlds, Pilot Waves and all the others. What you’re left with is reality. When it comes to understanding the Universe, scientists have traditionally taken two approaches in tandem with […]
A study at Rutgers University details the importance of this parent-child bond.
A lifelong fan on why she’s drawn to the magnificent gas giant.
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It’s much more complex a question than dividing its mass by the volume of the event horizon. If you want to get a meaningful answer, you have to go deep. If […]
There are a lot of unsolved mysteries in the Universe, but dark energy is the most confusing. Here’s why. The majority of the energy in our Universe went completely undiscovered until […]
The origin story for our Universe got a major revision nearly 40 years ago. Time to catch up. 13.8 billion years ago, all the matter and energy contained within our Universe […]
Results support Einstein’s theory and the idea that black holes have no “hair.”
Brain plasticity. Mindful superpowers. Pokémon invading our grey matter. Scientists have only begun to learn about the human brain.
Few students will become architects, but architecture may be able teach them more about real-life problem-solving than geometric proofs.
A glimpse into what a sustainable, inclusive future will look like.
The global financial system is under an increasing amount of pressure to get with the times and evolve to the needs of its customers. Crises like the 2008 housing bubble’s […]
A new study discovered that lack of purpose leads to earlier death.
Immigrants add way more to the American economy than they take.
Remembering a 1972 symposium gathering of the world’s greatest physicists.
When we split something into its most fundamental, indivisible components, are we truly seeing something that’s point-like, or is there a finite minimum size? Imagine that you wanted to know what […]
Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com, explains his plan for success.
The true course of progress is not only charted by great men and women, but also by ordinary people having conversations.
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Scientific discovery often happens when you least expect it. But no one could’ve expected this. Imagine that you’re a scientist, going out on a limb to design and build an experiment […]
In one of the ocean’s most lifeless places, scientists discover and resuscitate ancient organisms.