Politically polarized brains share an intolerance of uncertainty
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Our brain typically overlooks this brilliant problem-solving strategy
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How important is passion? It depends on your culture
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Microdosing's feel-good benefits might just be placebo effect
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Stanford study into “Zoom Fatigue” explains why video chats are so tiring
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CT scan catches 70% of lung cancers at early stage, NHS study finds
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Pigs can play video games with their snouts, scientists find
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Identical twins aren’t perfect clones, research shows
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New study links psychopathic tendencies to racial prejudice and right-wing authoritarianism
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Metagenomic sequencing can quickly identify pathogens in body fluids, new study finds
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The small effects of political advertising are small regardless of context, message, sender, or receiver
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What sexual and gender minority people want researchers to know about sexual orientation and gender identity questions: A qualitative study
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Low doses of LSD have been found to increase pain tolerance comparable to oxycodone or morphine
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Magicians’ priming techniques are effective at influencing choice
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Lab mice have a chill, and that may be messing up study results
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Predictability: Can the turning point and end of an expanding epidemic be precisely forecast?
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Physical force alone spurs gene expression, study reveals
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Smarter individuals engage in more prosocial behavior in daily life, study finds
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"Both studies ... sought to pin down how many times the human brain oscillates in and out of focus per minute."
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An examination of over 4700 clinical trials found that less than 45% of them reported their results on time, despite it being a legal requirement
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Research identifies new route for tackling drug resistance in skin cancer cells
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New studies help to explain how microbes in the gut can shape a host’s fear responses
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A new study shows an animal’s lifespan is written in the DNA. For humans, it’s thirty-eight years
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Three studies describe different parts of the 2018 Kīlauea caldera collapse
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The Vietnam draft lotteries functioned as a randomized experiment—which has allowed social scientists to study its life-changing effects
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Cows wearing VR headsets might produce better milk
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Effects of one year of Vitamin D and marine Omega-3 fatty acid supplementation on biomarkers of systemic inflammation in older US adults
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GM mosquito progeny not dying in Brazil: study
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Can face-to-face discussions improve societal cohesion?
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How life sciences actually work
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Climate deniers get more media play than scientists: study
News article: Climate deniers get more media play than scientists: study Study: Discrepancy in scientific authority and media visibility of climate change scientists and contrarians
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Self-blinding microdosing study, open to participation
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Origins of the current outbreak of multidrug-resistant malaria in southeast Asia: a retrospective genetic study
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Very rare pathogenic genetic variants detected by SNP-chips are usually false positives: implications for direct-to-consumer genetic testing
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Snowball the dancing cockatoo has wide range of killer moves, new study finds
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How people want to feel determines whether others can influence their emotions, Stanford psychologists find
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The invisible gorilla strikes again: Sustained inattentional blindness in expert observers
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Unlike men, women’s cognitive performance may improve at higher room temperature
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Ravens spread negative emotions to their friends, study finds
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Coca-Cola's contracts with researchers reserved the right to kill studies
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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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Giant pandas are macronutritional carnivores - A new study shows that the nutrient profile of the bear’s all-bamboo diet is much closer to that of a typical meat eater
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The internet's hidden rules: An empirical study of Reddit norm violations at micro, meso, and macro scales
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Long-term measles vaccine study shows no link with autism — again
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Dinosaurs had birdlike lungs
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An optical illusion that resembles "looming googly eyes" scares some types of birds, and is being used to keep them away from an airport
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The dangers of DNA testing - In a new study, 74 out of 108 crime laboratories implicated an innocent person in a hypothetical bank robbery
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First ever trials on the effects of microdosing LSD set to begin
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A study on the online "filter bubble" found that liberals and conservatives were actually recommended similar stories on Google News, representing a fairly homogeneous set of mainstream news sources
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Brain drain: The mere presence of one’s own smartphone reduces available cognitive capacity
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