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The Miller-Urey experiment showed that the building blocks of life could form in the primordial soup. But it overlooked one key variable.
How the brain decides what to store and what to forget.
An intriguing theory explains animals’ magnetic sense.
With economic turmoil looming, everyone wants a way to keep their funds safe. But is that really possible?
Treatments for depression have significantly improved since the 1980s. So why isn’t the rate of depression decreasing?
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By building a learning culture, L&D leaders can equip their organizations to adapt to a business world that is transforming before our eyes.
“Should they strike, each of them has an energy at impact equal to all of the nuclear weapons on Earth combined.”
The stone camel sculptures, seven in total and originally uncovered back in 2018, far predate more famous monuments.
Most cities reeked of death, defecation, and industrial waste. Still, focusing only on stench means turning a blind eye (or nose) to the many other smells that helped shape human history.
Ever wonder how soft hair can dull a steel razor? So did scientists at MIT.
During World War II, Nazi engineers allegedly tried to create UFO-shaped military aircraft.
Is it true that half of disaster relief is motivated politically rather than by need?
At the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society in Michigan, retrieving sunken vessels is the order of the day. Here’s how they do it.
From here on Earth, looking farther away in space means looking farther back in time. So what are distant Earth-watchers seeing right now?
The idea that “you” persist after death does not hold up to the current understanding of memory and identity.
In Louisiana, high school starts at 7:30 am. Research shows that is at least an hour too early.
“Kids are always asking two questions of parents: ‘Am I safe?’ and ‘Am I real?'”
With a telescope at just the right distance from the Sun, we could use its gravity to enhance and magnify a potentially inhabited planet.
On Nov. 13, 1946, a scientist dropped crushed dry ice from a plane into supercooled stratus clouds.
Nebulae are beautiful, but so is the process of science.
Far from acting as the conduits of a benevolent deity, these religious leaders threw the teachings of their own church out of the window.
Chess was once blamed for triggering mental health problems, including suicide and even murder. Today, the same is said of video games.
At very high and very low temperatures, matter takes on properties that open up an entire Universe of remarkable new possibilities.
Today’s young people are intelligent and kind, but they are overworked and burned out.
By exposing people to small doses of misinformation and encouraging them to develop resistance strategies, “prebunking” can fight fake news.
A divergence in mortality rates between U.S. states suggests that public health policy plays a substantial role in how long people live.
Can Detroit get its comeback right?
A small percentage of people who consume psychedelics experience strange lingering effects, sometimes years after they took the drug.