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Expert Michael Spitzer explains how culture can “tune” your musical taste.
If you're a massless particle, you must always move at light speed. If you have mass, you must go slower. So why aren't any neutrinos slow?
Darwin missed an amazing example of evolution.
A healthy endocannabinoid system is critical to the human body’s immune functions.
Studies show talk therapy works, but experts disagree about how it does so. Finding the answer could help professionals and patients.
While ticker tape synesthesia was first identified in the 1880s, new research looks at this unique phenomenon — and what it means for language comprehension.
In a state of "hyperwar," accidents or unexpected AI decisions could lead to widespread devastation before humans could intervene.
The body uses its own electricity to repair wounds. Faster healing may be possible with additional electrical stimulation.
Unless you confront your theory with what's actually out there in the Universe, you're playing in the sandbox, not engaging in science.
Hint: They hold off on talking about their alien god until much later.
There's a link between dark personality traits and breaches of battlefield ethics.
The Black, Caspian, and Aral Seas are the last surviving fragments of a body of water that stretched from Austria to Turkmenistan.
Democratic freedom, rapturous religion, and newspapers created a hotbed for social experimentation in 19th-century America.
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We are ~99% genetically identical to chimpanzees. But there are three key traits that separate us.
JWST's revolutionary views arrive in high-resolution at infrared wavelengths. Without NASA's Spitzer first, it wouldn't have been possible.
It may be an advantage in some contexts.
The typical car is parked 95% of the time.
Using shaped ultrasound, researchers can 3D print objects in one shot.
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A productivity expert explains how you can be creative and a powerhouse of productivity.
Baby mice can regenerate damaged hair cells — and now that we know how they do it, maybe we can, too.