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Your sexual education was probably inadequate. Here’s the information you always needed.

Americans have a lower life expectancy than people in other rich countries despite paying much more for healthcare. We explore the number of factors which might explain this difference.

In 2006, Pluto was demoted in a very controversial decision. Unless you ignore nearly all of planetary science, it’ll never be one again.

Isolation and empathy are by no means mutually exclusive.

Ultrarunners scored significantly higher on the resilience questionnaire than non-runners.

Researchers have found a way to make running and walking seem less long and tiresome. People who narrow their attention and focus on a specific object in the distance can motivate themselves to push on.

Kudos to the ever-reasonable Ruth Marcus, who defends her friend Emily Yoffe, who wrote what seems on the deconstructed face of things to be banal advice: young women are safer […]

Only two authenticated images of Emily Dickinson exist: one a painting of her (and her siblings) as a child, the other an iconic photograph of her as a teenager. In […]

Hugo-winning author Ken Liu explores what early cinema and Chinese poetry can teach us about AI’s potential as a new artistic medium.

When plans fall apart, adaptability can build something better.

When AI eats its own product, it gets sick.

Mental health awareness is more widespread than ever. Some professionals think it may have gone overboard — especially on TikTok.

Nicole has been dating someone for a while but it’s not working out from her point of view. Is sudden radio silence an ethical option?

From “The Castle of Otranto” to “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, these books changed the literary landscape.

After my father died, my journey of rediscovery began with the Czech language.

The flavor is “simultaneously fascinating and… abusive.”

There are 3 key principles that separate a good conversation from a great one — and they’ll completely change how you communicate.

Our one-size-fits-all approach to sex education hasn’t worked for a long time. Sex educator Emily Nagoski explains what we know (and don’t know) about the role neurodiversity plays in intimacy.

The best orgasms come when you learn how to unlock a sexual “flow state.” Emily Nagoski, a sex educator, shares a meditation to help you get started.

Can two planets stably share the same orbit? Conventional wisdom says no, but a look at Saturn’s moons might tell a different story.

But it’s still challenging to build a 22,000-mile elevator.

People are having less sex than ever. 3 experts explain the keys to maintaining a passionate relationship.

Some classic books, like Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” remain controversial to this day.

Art criticism is inherently subjective. Still, many critics have tried to make a case for why some of the world’s most celebrated books are in fact terribly written. 

To do more, it sometimes pays to do nothing at all.

In a citizen science project, thousands of pet dogs are helping scientists to understand what happens to memory and cognition in old age.

Red dwarf stars were supposed to be inhospitable. But TOI-700, now with at least two potentially habitable worlds, is quite the exception.

“Tristram Shandy” trolled its way to fame.

There may be a faster, less-painful way to use radiation against cancer.