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The spooky world of quantum mechanics might reach out and touch you — by mutating your DNA. Welcome to the weird world of quantum biology.
The chemistry of cooking over an open flame.
The last time the population shrank was during the great famine of 1959-61.
Your bites will heal, but will you ever sleep well again after an infestation of bloodsucking parasites?
Robinson v. California helped to established a rehabilitative ideal: addiction should be dealt with as a therapeutic matter.
This isn't America's first rodeo with monkeypox. In 2003, the virus swept across America thanks to a shipment of exotic animals.
Before the war, medical experts treated the body as a sum of its parts. Conditions like wound shock and brain damage called for a change in perspective.
Researchers have discovered 830-million-year-old microbes living inside a salt rock on Earth. Could the same occur on Mars?
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You can learn things 250% faster by unlocking your ‘flow state.’
Wind energy is one of the cleanest, greenest sources of power. But could it have the sneaky side-effect of changing the weather?
Privateers pillaged British merchant ships in the name of liberty — and profit.
Best in class: Denmark and Uruguay. Worst in class: Papua New Guinea, Venezuela, and Russia.
Smashing things together at unprecedented energies sounds dangerous. But it's nothing the Universe hasn't already seen, and survived.
Wyoming's roads are nine times deadlier than Ireland's. California's road safety is on par with Romania's.
Peer coaching can play a key role in building resilient, high-performing teams, while allowing remote workers to connect with one another from afar.
There is nothing more important to science than its ability to prove ideas wrong.
Like some cold poison creeping up our veins, there's a frisson in the stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe.
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The US reduced smoking rates from 50% to 15% with a simple habit hack.
John Templeton Foundation