Sports celebrate physical variation—until it challenges social norms
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The theory that men evolved to hunt and women evolved to gather is wrong
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AI will become mathematicians’ ‘co-pilot’
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A golden age of renewables is beginning, and California is leading the way
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Lemon-scented marijuana compound reduces weed’s ‘paranoia’ effect
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US astronomers fight to save X-ray telescope as NASA dishes out budget cuts
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How parents' trauma leaves biological traces in children
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Inside the crime rings trafficking sand
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Fifty-five books Scientific American recommends in 2023
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Sexual victimization by women is more common than previously known (2017)
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Republican Presidential candidates vow to fiddle as the Earth burns
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What is narcissism? Science confronts a widely misunderstood phenomenon
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Evidence undermines "Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria" claims
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Mapping arctic foxes’ spectacular solo journeys
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Researchers have decoded more than half of the characters in the so-called Kushan script by comparing them with inscriptions in a known ancient language called Bactrian
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New tinnitus therapy can quiet torturous ringing in the ears
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How culture affects the ‘Marshmallow Test’
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The first two botanists who surveyed, and survived, the Colorado River
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Cat noses contain twisted labyrinths that help them separate smells
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Neuroscientists show that brain waves synchronize when people interact
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When times are good, the gender gap grows
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Philosophy has made plenty of progress
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To the brain, a tool is just a tool, not a hand extension
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Autism and the social mind
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Our brain typically overlooks this brilliant problem-solving strategy
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Climate anxiety is an overwhelmingly White phenomenon
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NASA needs to rename the James Webb Space Telescope
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Harvard astrophysicist says 2017 interstellar object sighting was humanity’s first contact with an artifact of extraterrestrial intelligence
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Forever chemicals are widespread in US drinking water
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The ethical challenges of connecting our brains to computers
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How Andrea Ghez won the Nobel for an experiment nobody thought would work
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Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to discovery of ‘genetic scissors’ called CRISPR/Cas9 by Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna
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Unraveling the mindset of victimhood
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CERN makes bold push to build $23-billion super collider
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People drawn to conspiracy theories share a cluster of psychological features
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Cognitive ability and vulnerability to fake news
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CRISPR gene editing may help scale up coronavirus testing
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Quantum steampunk: 19th-century science meets technology of today
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