After completing your single task (and taking a break to acknowledge your progress), you move to the next concrete action.

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Meet Jessica Handler and Mickey Dubrow, who are co-authoring the novel “Ghost Tour Mystery: St. Augustine.” The longtime ...

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How a Bren School PhD fellow helps high school students shift from focusing on the what, toward a deeper interest in the how.

Thirty years ago, astronomers weren’t sure planets beyond our solar system even existed. This year, NASA has confirmed its ...

MIT scientists have achieved the first-ever lab synthesis of verticillin A, a complex fungal compound discovered in 1970. Its delicate structure stalled chemists for decades, despite differing from ...

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Organoids are bits of neural tissue that model human brain development. Their use in science makes some uneasy, in part because the brain is so closely tied to our sense of self.