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Linguists discover 30 sounds that may have allowed communication before words existed.
These Roman Emperors were infamous for their debauchery and cruelty.
New studies stretch the boundaries of physics, achieving quantum entanglement in larger systems.
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"The question is which are okay, which are not okay."
As bad as this sounds, a new essay suggests that we live in a surprisingly egalitarian age.
Our love-hate relationship with browser tabs drives all of us crazy. There is a solution.
Seek pleasure and avoid pain. Why make it more complicated?
Do they have real, observable effects, or are they merely calculational tools?
A new study explores how investors' behavior is affected by participating in online communities, like Reddit's WallStreetBets.
Predicting how emerging technologies will impact industry is more difficult than it seems—and it seems plenty difficult. The reason is that we envision the future based on the present. We […]
Is it groupthink? Or is there a deeper reason? In the early half of the 20th century, even after the discovery of the expanding Universe, physicists considered a wide variety of […]
Seawater is raising salt levels in coastal woodlands along the entire Atlantic Coastal Plain, from Maine to Florida.
A new study used functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to measure brain activity as inexperienced and experienced soccer players took penalty kicks.
What's the difference between brainwashing and rehabilitation?
A simple trick allowed marine biologists to prove a long-held suspicion.
Even addition has to play by different rules for black holes. How do you add 28 and 47 together? This simple math question helps us highlight the many different ways that […]
A machine learning system lets visitors at a Kandinsky exhibition hear the artwork.
A new study suggests that private prisons hold prisoners for a longer period of time, wasting the cost savings that private prisons are supposed to provide over public ones.
Want to live 100+ years? You may need unusually good DNA repair.