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Virtual instructor-led training is easily scalable and convenient for remote learners. Here’s how to orchestrate it effectively.

The golden rule of self-compassion: Treat yourself with the same kindness you treat others.

Studies show talk therapy works, but experts disagree about how it does so. Finding the answer could help professionals and patients.

2023’s Nobel Prize was awarded for studying physics on tiny, attosecond-level timescales. Too bad that particle physics happens even faster.

Shoving platelet-rich plasma up your nose might restore your sense of smell after COVID. But whether it actually works still needs to be sniffed out.

Spiritual experiences can be explained in terms of a highly evolved brain. But they also can be extremely meaningful.

Using cellulose from trees and a synthetic polymer, MIT researchers have created a material that “is stronger and tougher than some types of bone, and harder than typical aluminum alloys.”

Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major (K448) can help reduce seizures in epilepsy patients.

In the early 20th century, a young biochemist named Alexander Oparin set out to connect “the world of the living” to “the world of the dead.”

Do the laws of physics place a hard limit on how far technology can advance, or can we re-write those laws?

Much of the discussion began during the pandemic, which really brought mental health issues to the forefront.

“A cheap loan is beyond all new destiny.” Does that mean anything to you?

A doctor once joked that statins will be added to the water supply. Humor aside, the data shows that statins really are a “wonder drug.”

In special relativity, the statement that two events happened at the same time is meaningless.

In terms of sheer productivity, “-gate” has no peer. Wikipedia’s list of -gates has over 260 entries.

This flying car — more properly called an “electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicle” — will seat five and fly up to 135 mph.

A small study suggests that IMST is as effective as medications or 30 minutes of aerobic exercise.

The Netflix show about a Birmingham crime family and their personal demons concluded earlier this month. 

The pattern 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, etc., is the Fibonacci sequence. It shows up all over nature. But what’s the full explanation behind it?

Game theory is a unique combination of math and psychology. Its applications turn up everywhere, from nuclear war to Tinder to game shows.

There are dozens of instructional design models, but most learning designers rely on a select few. Here are four of the most common.

Can stories help us become more creative?

In the quest to measure how antimatter falls, the possibility that it fell “up” provided hope for warp drive. Here’s how it all fell apart.

NicoBoard is an app that helps parents make sense of a frightening time.

The image you’re seeing isn’t a hole in the Universe, and the cosmic voids that do exist aren’t hole-like at all.

If you said “with the Big Bang,” congratulations: that was our best answer as of ~1979. Here’s what we’ve learned in all the time since.

Wealth concentration among elites was common in ancient nations, but the scale on which it took place in Egypt’s 18th Dynasty was unprecedented.

The psychology of alien contact largely revolves around the concept of “otherness.” We need to learn to be comfortable around strange things.

Finding it at all was a happy accident. Examining it further may help unlock the secrets hiding within the earliest galaxies of all.

Cooperation was the first technology.