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If there is one thing that Russia scholars can agree on, it is the poor quality of leadership that has plagued the country since its inception. Though some coul…
If there is one thing that Russia scholars can agree on, it is the poor quality of leadership that has plagued the country since its inception. Though some coul…
Mindfulness has become a billion-dollar industry. Research shows mindfulness can be an effective wellness practice, yet the effect sizes found in studies tend t…
Compared to other Big Tech companies, Apple has been the poster child of privacy protection. Unfortunately, a recent announcement has breached that trust. How m…
Right now, there's just one virus on everyone's minds: SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. But humanity is plagued by many respiratory viruses, such as …
The Einstein field equations appear very simple, but they encode a tremendous amount of complexity. What looks like one compact equation is actually 16 complica…
Imagine you've just sat down to watch your favorite TV show. You decide to snuggle in with your legs crisscrossed because you find it more comfortable that way.…
To prevent the present from erasing the past, non-profit organizations are creating detailed 3D scans of famous monuments. Stored online and shared with researc…
Plato wrote profusely, and his ideas are intelligent, well argued, and powerful. His works form the backbone of so many subjects: epistemology, aesthetics, meta…
A new study suggests that exomoons are common in multistar systems. Thus far, only a few exomoon candidates have been identified. Exoplanets with moons may be l…
We assume that physical constants do not change from time to time or location to location. Measurements aimed at calculating the fine-structure constant, howeve…
Researchers observe in a series of photos an unexpected rescue of two young wild boars from a trap. The whole rescue took less than half an hour thanks to a cle…
Daoism is the philosophy that there is a right way to live life, and it involves finding and following the "Dao", or path, to our life and also the universe. Yi…
Anxiety is an inevitable feature of our lives. Our brains need stress in order to thrive, but neither too much nor too little. By harnessing neuroplasticity — t…
This article was originally published on our sister site, Freethink. Oxford scientists have proposed what they believe is a more sustainable approach to copper …
Is there an external reality? Is reality objective? Is the information your senses are feeding you an accurate depiction of reality? Most neuroscientists and sc…
A study finds that people associate personality traits with faces. People thought to have similar personalities were viewed as looking alike; people thought to …
For centuries, sailors have been reporting strange encounters like the one below. “The whole appearance of the ocean was like a plain covered with snow . There …
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This article was originally published on our sister site, Freethink. When Sophia the robot debuted in 2016, she was one of a kind. She had a remarkably lifelike…
The 20th anniversary of 9/11 arrives with pessimism and a sense of defeat. 9/11 caused a national trauma that lasted for years. We should remember this when ana…
One of the popular memes in literature, movies and tech journalism is that man's creation will rise and destroy it. Lately, this has taken the form of a fear of…
Many small animals grow their teeth, claws and other “tools" out of materials that are filled with zinc, bromine and manganese, reaching up to 20% of the materi…
Despite being the only bridge early hominin species could have crossed to enter Eurasia, the Arabian Peninsula bears little to no evidence of early human occupa…
Mass psychogenic illness, also known as mass hysteria, is when a group of people manifest physical symptoms from imagined threats. History is littered with outb…
Concentrated solar thermal power is a fascinating technology. These plants can produce power after dark, unlike standard solar photovoltaic plants. Currently, t…
The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. Society is reorienting to a new po…
Just like you and me, stars change over time. By studying the characteristics of stars, like their temperature and luminosity, astrophysicists figured out how s…
Before migrating to the sea, whales were terrestrial herbivores. As they transitioned to the ocean and became carnivores, at least one proto-whale was an eating…
Conventionalism is the idea that right and wrong depend entirely on the cultures and traditions to which we belong. What one culture calls immoral, another acce…
In recent decades the cost of wind and solar power generation has dropped dramatically. This is one reason that the U.S. Department of Energy projects that rene…
Worldviews change and, with them, the way we see ourselves and our place in the universe. The transition from myth to science as an explanation for the workings…