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There are plenty of alternatives to spending a fortune on employee training programs. These 10 options are a great place to start.
Almost everything we can observe and measure follows what’s known as a normal distribution, or a Bell curve. There’s a profound reason why.
New research finds that dinosaurs were already adapted to living in cold climates before the end-Triassic mass extinction. But how?
How can you fit a camel through a needle?
Cognitive fatigue results from thinking too hard and long. Neuroscientists now believe they know why this occurs.
Modern robotics are creating a kind of cultural paradox, where the best religion is the one that eventually involves no humans at all.
A new technique that can automatically classify phases of physical systems could help scientists investigate novel materials.
We thought the Big Bang started it all. Then we realized that something else came before, and it erased everything that existed prior.
To understand Vincent van Gogh, we must first debunk the myth of the tortured artist. Van Gogh believed his illness inhibited his creativity.
Now that it’s fully commissioned, the James Webb Space Telescope begins its exploration of the Universe. Here are its first science images!
It’s early days, but if the efforts can be efficiently scaled-up, such biological recycling could put a dent in the plastic waste problem.
Meet the world’s largest landowners.
How much can something change and still be the same thing?
Can we stop mass shootings? The first step is collecting data, and these authors have done just that.
Our inaugural special issue is focused on progress — the search for, the study of, and the project towards a better world.
When someone attempts to make you afraid of something that hasn’t happened instead of a true, present danger, suspect this nefarious ploy.
Is science for everyone, or just the morally upright?
If you find yourself on one of these roads, it might be a while before you see another fellow traveler.
The acceptance of death is deeply embedded in our culture; it’s time to overthrow that idea.
Even though the brain is only 2% of our total body mass, it consumes up to 25% of our energy.
As improving biotech offers us longevity, we can prepare to live much better as we age.
We used to think, “That email isn’t going to write itself.” But now it can, thanks to AI. And there’s so much more, from coding to marketing.
“I was part of the surgical team that conducted the first pig-to-human heart transplant in a living patient.”
The discovery calls into question the few things scientists know about these powerful astronomical phenomena.
In all the Universe, only a few particles are eternally stable. The photon, the quantum of light, has an infinite lifetime. Or does it?
Instead of fear, his delusions bring him cheer. His psychiatrist embraces them.
The Universe is an amazing place. Under the incredible, infrared gaze of JWST, it’s coming into focus better than ever before.
Nostalgia is a happy remembrance of the past, yet it also leaves us feeling sad. Perhaps ironically, it can serve as a painkiller.
Catastrophes are difficult to predict because they are so rare. But AI using active learning can make predictions from very small data sets.