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It’s as easy as 123456 to make an unforgettable password. Here’s why I would prefer not to.

Hint: it has something to do with why we believe the earth is flat until we’re taught otherwise in school. Neuroscientist Mariano Sigman explains how the process of learning involves a certain amount of un-learning what we intuitively know.

To create new art, sculptor Brian Dettmer cuts up old books. See a gallery of his intricate, breathtaking creations.

In choosing partners, we tend to be generals fighting the last war, which can set us up for another bad relationship.

What science knows — and doesn’t — about orgasm.

Most disasters come with heart-breaking visuals — innocent victims, burned wreckage. Our looming water disaster is invisible. Will anyone notice before it’s too late?

Each year in September, corals in the Caribbean stage a mass spawning event. Witnessing it, says marine biologist and TED Fellow Kristen Marhaver, is like swimming inside a snow globe. Here, she explains how corals beget corals — and how she and her fellow scientists are trying to help them along.

Men and women are similar in their tendency to view status and power as relatively unimportant in the grand scheme of things. So why do so many more men become leaders than women?

For the last 12 years, LaToya Ruby Frazier has photographed her family as it deals with reality on the American post-industrial front lines in Braddock, Pennsylvania. The images, she says, show a family struggling to survive.

In 2018, astronomer Erika Hamden saw a decade-long project crash into the desert — but following that defeat, she took away valuable lessons. Here, she shares advice for bouncing back, whether you’re pushing the bounds of outer space or hunkered down in a home office.