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Learning and development leaders can play a key role in fostering inclusion in the workplace, improving creativity and innovation in the process.

With a record-setting $1.9 billion jackpot, you’d think it’s a no-brainer to buy a Powerball ticket. But the math truly shows otherwise.

In General Relativity, white holes are just as mathematically plausible as black holes. Black holes are real; what about white holes?

It is a story with nebulous beginnings and no discernible end.

The East India Company issued stocks to minimize the risk on their unpredictable but highly lucrative voyages. The rest is history.

When the Universe was first born, the ingredients necessary for life were nowhere to be found. Only our “lucky stars” enabled our existence.

Wind energy is one of the cleanest, greenest sources of power. But could it have the sneaky side-effect of changing the weather?

There’s never been a better time to implement empathy training.

Will all robots think like Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg?

A clear alternative has yet to emerge.

The “first-of-its-kind” archeological find is being reburied despite the fact that researchers haven’t finished studying it.

Fiona Broome remembered Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the 1980s (he didn’t). Oddly, many people had the same false memory.

Up until 2002, we thought that the heaviest stable element was bismuth: #83 on the periodic table. That’s absolutely no longer the case.

Heart muscle is shaped like a spiral, a mystery that has eluded scientists since 1669. New research has recreated the structure.

Your mentors made time for you. Now, go and make time for others.

The science fiction dream of a traversable wormhole is no closer to reality, despite a quantum computer’s suggestive simulation.

His grandfather, a member of Oppenheimer’s atomic bomb team, foresaw the potential of nuclear energy to power cities — not destroy them.

Books that were rarely taught in 1963, when baby boomers were students, became classics when those same boomers were teachers and parents.

I also can’t conjure sounds, smells, or any other kind of sensory stimulation inside my head. This is called “aphantasia.”

Organ transplantation is in dire need of biotechnological advances. 3D bioprinting and genetic modification of pigs provide a path forward.

How can you maximize the amount of love and happiness in your life? One of history’s greatest scientists found the answer: with math.

Many animals engage in “zoopharmacognosy” or self-medication.

Studying neuroscience through art.

For 550 million years, neutral atoms blocked the light made in stars from traveling freely through the Universe. Here’s how it then changed.

Certain cancers are striking earlier than they used to.

We don’t understand why loneliness is bad for us if all we can say is that it hurts.

When maps meet stamps, you get a love child called “cartophilately.”

Our minds seem both physical and intangible. That paradox has gripped this neuroscientist since childhood.

If you want to understand the Universe, cosmologically, you just can’t do it without the Friedmann equation. With it, the cosmos is yours.

Like humans, stars die. The James Webb Space Telescope’s early images already give us a lot of information about how this happens.