I learned how to do math with the ancient abacus — and it changed my life
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A math problem stumped experts for fifty years. This grad student from Maine solved it in days
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Hangover cure successfully tested on drunk subjects in Finland – dose of 1,200 milligrams of amino acid L-cysteine was found to reduce alcohol-related nausea and headache
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There are forty-eight regular polyhedra
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Is dust mostly dead skin?
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Smartphone cameras can now detect diabetes with 80% accuracy
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Is the most northern part of Iceland still there?
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How to think like an epidemiologist
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Seeing around corners
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Magicians’ priming techniques are effective at influencing choice
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Williams syndrome: The opposite of autism
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Lab mice have a chill, and that may be messing up study results
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Immunology is where intuition goes to die
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Safety lessons from the morgue
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CERN experiments announce first indications of a rare Higgs decay to two muons
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Coral discovered in uncharted Danish waters – a mapping project led by the conservationist Klaus Thymann has revealed a rich, varied habitat off the coast of Jutland
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The mysterious case of man who can read letters—but not numbers—exposes roots of consciousness
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New techniques are helping medical researchers develop new anti-cancer drugs and gain a better understanding of how existing ones work
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You want to see my data? I thought we were friends
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Detection of electrical signaling between tomato plants raises interesting questions
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Researchers created amino acids and primitive membranes by simulating conditions found at scalding vents on the ocean floor
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Scientists are 3D printing miniature human organs to test coronavirus drugs
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Twenty-five years after returning, Yellowstone’s wolves are the most studied but misunderstood good boys
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Why experiments matter and why we hate them
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What's the color of an atom?
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Terry Tao on what makes good mathematical notation
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Alone on a mountaintop, awaiting a very hard rain
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Microcentury
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The African continent is very slowly peeling apart. Scientists say a new ocean is being born.
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The last giraffes on earth - The planet’s tallest animal is in far greater danger than people might think
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What does the world look like from a beetle’s-eye view? Researchers strapped tiny cameras to the insects’ backs to find out
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Why line-dried laundry smells so good
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Hadrons are much more than the familiar protons and neutrons
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Colorado is not a rectangle, it’s not even a quadrilateral, in fact it is a hexahectaenneacontakaiheptagon
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What a mass of rotting carcasses taught scientists – when 323 reindeer were killed by lightning on a remote Norwegian plateau, their bodies were left for nature to take its course
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Division by zero in type theory: a FAQ
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Why do prime numbers make these spirals?
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Canada's sparrows are singing a new song. You'll hear it soon
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A highly contagious, often lethal rabbit virus arrives in the United States
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ThorCon's thorium converter reactor
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Lights and shadows
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MAPfrappe
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The Monty Hall problem
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Advances in weather prediction
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How weed eaters work (at 62,000 frames per second)
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What an underground nuclear test actually looks like
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A deep-sea soft coral garden habitat has been discovered in Greenlandic waters by scientists, using an innovative and low-cost deep-sea video camera
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The true story of Kudzu, the vine that never truly ate the South
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The rapid sharing of pandemic research shows there is a better way to filter good science from bad
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The long-forgotten remains of a giant wombat-like animal that roamed Australia twenty-five million years ago has revealed an all new family of ancient marsupials
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