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If you want to know what makes a Canadian lynx a Canadian lynx a team of DNA sequencers has figured that out.
The exploding popularity of the keto diet puts a less used veggie into the spotlight.
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Great again? Why America stopped looking forward to the future.
These three reasons are why there’s no getting around the fact that astronomy needs the James Webb Space Telescope. Even the most powerful telescope in history, the Hubble Space Telescope, […]
Our experience of time may be blinding us to its true nature, say scientists.
Fight or flight? We've all been there. Now we have an understanding of how it works.
The Spilhaus Projection may be more than 75 years old, but it has never been more relevant than today.
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How the U.N. hatched the most ambitious plan in the world.
It's just the current cycle that involves opiates, but methamphetamine, cocaine, and others have caused the trajectory of overdoses to head the same direction
How a mother-daughter obsession became a massive and dangerous industry. The weird history of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.
LIGO’s enormous arms contract and expand as gravitational waves pass through them. But, puzzlingly, so does the light within them. For the past three years, humanity has known a new kind […]
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Mindfulness practices can considerably improve the symptoms of depression and anxiety, especially when used with psychotherapy.
Cryovolcanoes that eject ice instead of magma have been confirmed to exist on Ceres, which will help studying this formation on other planets and moons throughout the solar system.
Recent books that are sure to add to your intelligence.
Scientists think constructing a miles-long wall along an ice shelf in Antarctica could help protect the world's largest glacier from melting.
The world's getting hotter, and it's getting more volatile. We need to start thinking about how climate change encourages conflict.
You can learn good design through these books. Most of which is avoiding bad design.
There's still a lot even doctors don't know about it.
Both schizophrenics and people with a common personality type share similar brain patterns.
It's a development that could one day lead to much better treatments for osteoporosis, joint damage, and bone fractures.