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Differences in cognitive organization turns some people with autism into math whizzes.

People have been turning away from psychotherapy in favor of medication for years, despite the evidence that therapy works. Here are a few tips for improving the industry's image.

The Air Force's drone program is too unmanned for its own good.

Good ol' meat and potatoes. Without the potatoes.

Electrocuting animals, stealing credit, self-aggrandizing, and more

Want to see history? You could go to a museum--or you could go to the zoo and check out these animals that haven't changed for tens of millions of years.

An armadillo-inspired micro car from South Korea can shrink itself down to just 65 inches.

Cue the slow clapping.

A new study of bipolar patients brings researchers closer to creating a blood test for suicidal thoughts.

But the international panel of experts is less sure how that will affect people in specific places.

Researchers even found some associations between psychedelic drugs and fewer mental health issues.

And not hide in the woods?

Dispatches from Nyberg's Pinterest page

We chat with Al Palmer, director for the Center for UAS Research, Education and Training at the University of North Dakota, about creating a drone-friendly state.

The novelist Nicholson Baker makes a case against algebra

They just want a nice home! And to destroy you.

Twelve-year-old electronics prodigy Quin Etnyre wanted to make education more fun. So he became a teacher.