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/ 1 month agoMeditation can reduce stress – but the pressure to overwork remains
Mindfulness – meant to support health and detachment – is becoming a tool to support the corporate bottom line.
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/ 1 month agoHow to combat toxic bosses: Social media and flexible work can save careers, new research shows
If you have a toxic boss – and who hasn’t? – you can find solace online, or at home.
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/ 1 month agoHow utilities are working to meet AI data centers’ voracious appetite for electricity
Utilities have options for addressing surging power demand from AI data centers, but there’s no silver bullet.
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/ 1 month agoWhat is the universe expanding into if it’s already infinite?
The universe is constantly expanding, but how do scientists think about what it’s expanding into?
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/ 1 month agoAssad leaves behind a fragmented nation – stabilizing it will be a major challenge for fractured opposition and external backers
Opposition forces marched into Damascus on Dec. 8, seemingly ending the half-century rule of the Assad family. But what happens next?
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/ 1 month agoWhat does the NASA administrator do? The agency’s leader reaches for the stars while navigating budgets and politics back on Earth
NASA administrators have hard choices to make, but the outcomes are often out-of-this-world exciting.
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/ 1 month agoExtraterrestrial life may look nothing like life on Earth − so astrobiologists are coming up with a framework to study how complex systems evolve
A specific set of chemical conditions led to the emergence of life on Earth. But can life emerge from other chemistries?
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/ 1 month agoWhat is Salt Typhoon? A security expert explains the Chinese hackers and their attack on US telecommunications networks
Chinese hackers are alleged to have broken into US phone networks, giving Chinese intelligence services a window onto specific Americans’ phone...
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/ 1 month agoTrump attacks diversity, but a fellow New Yorker − US Rep. Vito Marcantonio − worked to represent all Americans in a multiracial democracy
The U.S. congressman from East Harlem promoted compassion in a district marked by ethnic, racial and class differences. It’s a story...
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/ 1 month agoLove it or hate it, nonliteral ‘literally’ is here to stay: Here’s why English will survive
Language changes because of how it finds itself most gainfully employed by speakers through time. So it’s OK to say “The...
