Book review: Eric Turkheimer's "Understanding the Nature-Nurture Debate"
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Digging into the first work of modern ecology
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New largest prime number found! 2¹³⁶²⁷⁹⁸⁴¹-1. See all 41,024,320 digits.
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Did Sandia use a thermonuclear secondary in a product logo?
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Is accidentally stumbling across the unknown a key part of science?
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You don't descend from all your ancestors
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Stephen Hawking Archive made available to historians and researchers
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Ahmes, the first known maths author
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Why we like people who ask us for favors
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The history of the gas mask
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Japan’s “Wasan” mathematical tradition: Surprising discoveries in an age of seclusion
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Does light itself truly have an infinite lifetime?
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The hazy evolution of cannabis
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The oldest unsolved problem in math. Do odd perfect numbers exist?
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Wasabi could help preserve ancient Egyptian papyrus artefacts
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Tour of Vienna's Natural History Museum in Austria. It houses one of the oldest natural history collections in the world, dating back to the 1700's.
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The Hawthorne effect in human resource management is based on unreliable studies
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What the Prisoner's Dilemma reveals about life, the Universe, and everything
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Egyptian fractions and the greedy algorithm
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The Brain Scoop relaunch!
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The story of when washing hands was considered crazy
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Denmark is building on the success of blockbuster drugs – the country's focus on reinvestment is feeding a stream of discovery
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The genetic heritage of the Denisovans may have left its mark on our mental health
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A brief history of tricky mathematical tiling
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Rare 1885 photo captures the first licensed women doctors of India, Japan, and Syria
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The early history of counting
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Turning milk into clothing
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s FLIP vessel decommissioned after sixty years
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Charles Henry Turner’s insights into animal behavior were a century ahead of their time
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The blue flash: How a careless slip led to a fatal accident in the Manhattan Project
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Faced with scrap material inside a particle accelerator, physicists used a ferret to try to solve the problem
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How quantum physicists explained Earth’s oscillating weather patterns
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Measuring the amount of lead (Pb) consumed when drinking from lead crystal glassware. Is it safe?
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We made an epic fireworks display to explain the science of fireworks
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The surprisingly sinister history behind Texas’s cliff chirping frog
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The first two botanists who surveyed, and survived, the Colorado River
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History of transcendental numbers
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Ronald Reagan and the biggest failure in physics
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Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?
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How medieval thinkers foreshadowed modern physics in investigating the character of machines, devices and forces
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Ancient Earth map | Map showing modern locations across millions of years
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The myth of the alpha wolf
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Native Americans—and their genes—traveled back to Siberia, new genomes reveal
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‘Self-healing’ Roman concrete could aid modern construction, study suggests
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The curious case of Nebraska Man
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A crucial particle physics computer program risks obsolescence
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Making the stinkiest chemical known to man
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The story of solar-grade silicon
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10,000 brains in a basement: The dark and mysterious origins of Denmark’s psychiatric brain collection
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The world depends on this government warehouse's collection of strange Standard Reference Materials. They're not cheap.
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