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Pulitzer Prize-winner Jared Diamond explains why some nations make it through epic crises and why others fail.

When it comes to sniffing out whether a source is credible or not, even journalists can sometimes take the wrong approach.

Want to be smarter than you were yesterday? Learn to have better conversations using these 3 design principles.

Was it “one small step for man,” or “one small step for a man”?

Going back to the moon will give us fresh insights about the creation of our solar system.

Should doctors allow their expertise to trump patient’s personal goals — or should they yield to it?

LSD may help us change our lives by spurring perspective shifts.

Here’s what neuroscience and psychology have to say about how people humanize and dehumanize one another.

Bishop Omar Jahwar explains that before mentors can inspire others, they have to be inspired themselves.

These effective strategies can minimize harmful moral grandstanding – in yourself and in others.

Soon we’ll be able to blink and instantly go online via computer chips attached to our eyes.

Sometimes the way to rise to the top is by moving sideways.

The more Greenland melts, the more Greenland melts. Here’s why.

Why Django Reinhardt might just be the greatest musical innovator you’ve never heard of.

Here are just two of the practical and philosophical crises surrounding biodiversity breakdown.

There’s more than one kind of wall that we can build. Building the right kind of wall might even be good for the U.S.

Changing people’s minds isn’t how we end polarization. Tolerance is the gateway to peaceful coexistence.

The recent photo of a black hole is something extraordinary. Here’s why.

Does God exist? The answer rests outside the “normal” boundaries of science.

Symbols are often used to help people get an idea of higher, often ineffable, truths.

The ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are remnants of the ice age. They’re also the wild cards of climate science.

Here’s why “glue people” won’t get steamrolled by job automation.

At one point, America needed to be called a Judeo-Christian nation. Now, with growing populations of Muslims, Evangelicals, Sikhs, Atheists, and other faiths, what should America call itself next?

Jonathan Zimmerman explains why teachers should invite, not censor, tough classroom debates.

Don’t underestimate the power of play when it comes to problem-solving.

An astrobiologist joins a like-minded global community in ramping up the search.

Here’s how we stop a health crisis before it wreaks havoc on us.

Gigantic explosions of light are reverberating across the universe.

There are clues to the future and past trapped in Greenland’s ice.