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It’s rarely been harder to disagree politically — but social science suggests ways to have constructive conversations across ideological divides.

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Svenja Kling is a fifth-year PhD student studying marine biology at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Kling ...

AI can write songs, but still has a way to go before matching the creativity of tunes made by people, according to Carnegie ...

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Researchers at the University of Maine and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are ...

Blasting meteorite samples with CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron, the team found that the material "became stronger". That ...

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Malina was also a pacifist and anti-fascist, a card-carrying member of the Communist party, and a painter and pioneer in the field of kinetic art – where motion, be it mechanically or naturally ...

In A Nutshell A sharp brain day equals 40 extra minutes of work. Researchers found that daily cognitive sharpness had the same effect on goal achievement as working nearly an extra hour. Self-control ...