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Just as human beings diversified so that people in Asia look different from people in Europe, so too did their microbiomes.
Whenever you’re surprised, there’s a good chance that your brain is busy tweaking your memories.
In the age of distraction, don’t we all want to read faster and more efficiently?
Whether in Russia or China, the secret police are defined by their unquestioning loyalty — as well as by their poor career prospects.
75 years after Erwin Schrödinger’s prescient description of something like DNA, we still don’t know the “laws of life.”
Unlike the first Roaring Twenties, these won’t end with a Great Depression.
Technology usually has more pros than cons, but every benefit still carries some risk.
Like it or not, we are the descendants of busybodies.
NuqneH! Saluton! A linguistic anthropologist (and creator of the Kryptonian language, among others) studies the people who invent new tongues.
Our minds seem both physical and intangible. That paradox has gripped this neuroscientist since childhood.
Sex can be a death trap even for modern toad and frog species.
On long-haul flights, some airlines show shipwrecks on their in-flight maps. The aim is to entertain; the result is often to horrify.
An out-of-this-world idea could help reduce some of the risk of solar geoengineering.
A persistent barrage of information is not the best method for getting through to someone with a different point of view.
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