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For college students, it's the early afternoon.
To prevent overloading the memory system, the brain may have a mechanism that tosses out certain types of memories.
It's spooky, and it's happening all around us. And inside us.
Philosopher Slavoj Žižek argues that we often don't truly want to obtain what we think we desire.
2022 was a year full of scientific discoveries and the dawn of the JWST. But Hubble's still going after 32 years. Here's the amazing proof!
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Everything you ever wanted to know about the Universe, explained by physicist Sean Carroll.
Merely 256 genetically engineered mice could make an island's pest population go extinct.
Once water gets more than about 200 feet deep, building on the sea floor is out of the question.
2022 was another busy year in the realm of science, with groundbreaking stories spanning space, materials, medicine, and technology.
It’s like radar, but with light. Distributed acoustic sensing — DAS — picks up tremors from volcanoes, quaking ice and deep-sea faults, as well as traffic rumbles and whale calls.
Goodbye, Arabica? Learn to love Liberica.
As far as we know, it's only happened once to one unlucky person in Oklahoma.
What you see is what you hear.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
Is the dumpster in the alley worthy of a poem?
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Our impulse to seek out agreement is stifling us, says world debate champion Bo Seo.
Every proton contains three quarks: two up and one down. But charm quarks, heavier than the proton itself, have been found inside. How?
It’s an agricultural moonshot: Scientists hope to increase plant yields by hacking photosynthesis, the process that powers life on Earth.