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Parity tasks (such as odd and even categorisation) are considered abstract and high-level numerical concepts in humans.
Of the world's 300 honey varieties, none is stranger and more dangerous than mad honey.
An un-crewed sailing drone discovered the unusually shaped, slumbering seamount.
Adrie Kusserow, an anthropologist and scholar of Buddhism, shares how her study of the religion and its history has reshaped her view of the world — and herself.
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Recent discoveries about bodily awareness have changed how scientists think about the nature of consciousness.
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There are issues with Kinsey's data, but his books revolutionized Americans' thinking about sex and sexuality.
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Humans are good visual thinkers, too, but we tend to privilege verbal thinking.
Inspired by the group behaviors of simple animals, a team of roboticists has developed a new way for swarm robots to maneuver on land.
First picture of worldwide bee distribution fills knowledge gaps and may help protect species.
To enable us to read, the brain piggybacks on other cognitive processes.
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Since 1962, humanity has been sending messages into space with the intent to make contact with intelligent extraterrestrials. Are those efforts worth the risks?
Physicists have yet to pinpoint the hypothetical matter that keeps galaxies from flying apart. Now they have a new focus.
It's time to rethink how satellites and other objects are made and eventually destroyed.
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