How information is like snacks, money, and drugs—to your brain
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How modern life is transforming the human skeleton
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Corsica's 'cat-fox': On the trail of what may be a new species
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The invisible gorilla strikes again: Sustained inattentional blindness in expert observers
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This psychologist explains why people confess to crimes they didn’t commit
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Manganese heptoxide, the chemical that really doesn't want to exist
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Who really invented the periodic table?
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What's the story with log(1 + 2 + 3)?
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Ghost lineages
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Penrose, a platform to create diagrams just by typing mathematical notation in plain text
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The long-awaited upgrade to the US weather forecast model is here
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The war to free science: How librarians, pirates, and funders are liberating the world’s academic research from paywalls
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Stubborn Detachment
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Ditch the GPS. It’s ruining your brain.
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Alligator dissection
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Pfizer had clues its blockbuster drug could prevent Alzheimer’s. Why didn’t it tell the world?
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Quantum computing is a marathon, not a sprint
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Researchers strapped video cameras on sixteen cats and let them do their thing. Here’s what they found. (Q&A with Maren Huck about her recent study in Applied Animal Behaviour Science)
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What Are You Reading - Science Edition
I am interested in what non-fiction, science oriented books you all might have read recently. It can be history of science, pop sci, science textbooks, academic papers, etc.
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The hidden heroines of chaos
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Unlike men, women’s cognitive performance may improve at higher room temperature
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How do meteorologists work out the weather forecast? And how far into the future can they go?
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The behavioural economics of discounting, and why Kogan would profit from discount deception
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Stronger than aluminum, a heavily altered wood cools passively
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A definitive guide to the power of psychedelics -- tripping through time
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Murray Gell-Mann, who peered at particles and saw the universe, dies at 89
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A solution to psychology’s reproducibility problem just failed its first test
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The man who is ageing too fast
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How to measure how much pee is in your pool
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Ravens spread negative emotions to their friends, study finds
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The way we define kilograms, metres and seconds changes today
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The sealed garden that was only watered once in fifty-three years
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Viruses to stop cholera infections – the viral enemy of deadly bacteria could be humanity’s friend
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Piezoelectricity - Why hitting crystals makes electricity
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Going critical - an interactive essay demonstrating how things move and spread through networks
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Planetary poles and magnetic fields
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The first 3D colour x-rays
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Metal has no odor, so what are we smelling? | Making 1-octen-3-one
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The sky is blue. Why isn't everything blue?
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Do trigger warnings actually work? Researchers are divided over whether warnings about sensitive content help or harm people who have experienced trauma.
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Why are 96,000,000 black balls on this reservoir?
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Tractor driver finds South Island's first moa footprints in Otago river
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The birth-tissue profiteers - How well-meaning donations end up fueling an unproven, virtually unregulated $2 billion stem cell industry
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Coca-Cola's contracts with researchers reserved the right to kill studies
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New batlike dinosaur was early experiment in flight
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Bad evidence: Ten years after a landmark study blew the whistle on junk science, the fight over forensics rages on
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In Swiss academic science, charges of bullying and gender bias
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A brain region for Pokemon characters?
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The subtle art of the mathematical conjecture
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5-HTTLPR: A Pointed Review
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