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Scientists still aren’t sure how they perform without those restorative Z’s.
You could call this rectangle covering parts of Iran, Iraq, and the Arabian Peninsula the “Oven Window.”
After my father died, my journey of rediscovery began with the Czech language.
This small phase 1 study suggests that CRISPR-engineered T cells are safe and potentially effective, but there is a long way to go.
Dispatches host Kmele Foster is on a journey to understand humanity’s role in the cosmos. His first stop? The Atacama Plateau in Northern Chile, home to the darkest deserts and largest telescopes on earth.
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To what extent will our psychological vulnerabilities shape our interactions with emerging technologies?
Whenever something goes wrong — in business as in life — we tend to get cause and effect totally muddled up.
Imagine Flipper trained in the art of espionage.
Memory, responsibility, and mental maturity have long been difficult to describe objectively, but neuroscientists are starting to detect patterns. Coming soon to a courtroom near you?
What do you call it when the Earth shakes for three decades?
Google’s first Chief Innovation Evangelist — Frederik Pferdt — lays out a map for navigating unprecedented change and innovation.
While executive function matures between 18 and 20 years of age, the brain keeps changing long afterward.
The simulation hypothesis is fun to talk about, but believing it requires an act of faith.
“All moments past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.”
Better cognitive control over our decisions can stave off disappointment in our actions.
Famished, not famous: retrace Orwell’s hunger days, when he was one of the city’s legion of poor foreigners.
“It’s remarkable how weak the correlation between success and intelligence is.” Here’s what skills do matter, from 3 business experts.
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A clock, designed and built in Europe, ran hopelessly at the wrong rate when brought to America. The physics of gravity explains why.
Morning, afternoon, or night: When is the best time to exercise? Scientists have extensively studied this question. Here’s what they found.
Big Think Business columnist Eric Markowitz prefaces his new series on long-term thinking with the experience that almost cut his life short.
Acting “little and often” has huge consequences and they’re not always good — but awareness yields solutions.
German researchers have just solved the mystery of how these substances work.
Dr. Temple Grandin shares how we can unlock the hidden gifts of neurodivergent minds.
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Have you ever noticed how many things you interact with but can’t name? So did we.
There are nearly 100 towns named “Troy.”
A volley of new insights reignites the debate over whether our choices are ever truly our own.
“Feedback is a gift,” is an easy bumper sticker to apply, but a harder philosophy to put into execution in your real life.
Brain-computer interfaces could enable people with locked-in syndrome and other conditions to “speak.”