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The author of a new book about attention explains the three distinct kinds: immediate, short, and long. To capture someone's attention, you have to see these three as stages into a person's subconscious.

The benefits of employee training are felt far and wide, from improvements in workers' wellbeing to better customer interactions.

Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love my tsundoku.

When organized effectively, peer mentoring programs can offer substantial benefits for organizations and their employees.

Running to catch the bus might help you live longer.

The strongest tests of curved space are only possible around the lowest-mass black holes of all. Their small event horizons are the key.

Historical analyses reveal that crises almost always yield surprising benefits.

There are many ways asynchronous learning benefits both individuals and organizations, from learner autonomy to cost savings.

About the project The goal of driving more progress across the world—scientifically, politically, economically, socially, etc—is one shared by many. And yet, debates about the best way to maximize progress […]

While becoming a monk is an evolutionary dead end for the individual, celibacy reaps benefits for the group as a whole.

The surface of asteroid Bennu is more like a plastic ball pit than the Moon.

Should men be doing kegels?

Immersive learning creates an interactive environment in which learners have the power to customize their experience. 

Learning another language might make you richer, sexier, and smarter. Why not try it?

In a new book, an MIT scholar examines how game-theory logic underpins many of our seemingly odd and irrational decisions.

"Immodest Acts" tells the story of Benedetta Carlini, a lesbian nun who claimed to be a mystic visionary but failed to convince the leaders of her faith. 

Benjamin Franklin's lightning rod saved countless lives, but some religious leaders denounced his invention.

It won't give you a six pack, but could improve your bone density.

There’s never been a better cultural moment to capitalize on microlearning.

Blended learning reflects how people learn and develop naturally every day. Here's how to put it into practice.

Darwin, Descartes, and Maxwell all believed in these science ‘demons.’

Asteroid Bennu is still far more likely to fly right by us than to make impact.

Albert Einstein and his theory of general relativity continue to amaze us to this day.

Smallpox was nothing new in 1721.

Infrared, visible, and ultraviolet combine to show us Jupiter’s features as never before. The largest planet in our Solar System, Jupiter, is our own ‘failed star.’ The best evidence-based classification scheme […]

Think of the nicest person you know. The person who would fit into any group configuration, who no one can dislike, or who makes a room warmer and happier just […]

The organisms were anchored to a boulder 900 meters beneath the ice, living a cold, dark existence miles away from the open ocean.

In-depth research suggests BDSM practitioners can experience altered states of consciousness that can be therapeutic.

It was a concept borrowed from the Iroquois, and one that America never quite mastered.

While the benefits of music therapy are well known, more in-depth research explores how music benefits children with autism.