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The genes responsible for facial features may also influence behavior.
Harmony and moderation make for a happier life.
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We confidently state that the Universe is known to be 13.8 billion years old, with an uncertainty of just 1%. Here’s how we know.
With economic turmoil looming, everyone wants a way to keep their funds safe. But is that really possible?
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Every time our Universe cools below a critical threshold, we fall out of equilibrium. That’s the best thing that ever happened to us.
A researcher explains a little-known niche within modern physics: animal collective behavior.
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The quantum world is one in which rules that are completely foreign to our everyday experience dictate bizarre behavior.
Mycobacterium leprae, the bacteria that cause leprosy, have the surprising ability to grow and reverse aging in armadillo livers.
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The strongest tests of curved space are only possible around the lowest-mass black holes of all. Their small event horizons are the key.
New memories appear to be stabilized in the brain by a neurotransmitter called gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA).
The metaverse is inevitable because it is hardwired into our DNA.
Caffeine does something, but it’s not clear exactly what.
Maybe the brain isn’t “classical” after all.
It’s on a 100,000-year timescale, though, so the next few centuries might not be so comfortable.
Realizing that matter and energy are quantized is important, but quantum particles aren’t the full story; quantum fields are needed, too.
“All moments past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.”
The larger truth on the streets is that no one uses just one drug anymore.
Historical analyses reveal that crises almost always yield surprising benefits.
“Downward counterfactual thinking” — that is, imagining how things could be worse — is a quick and easy way to boost your well-being and gratitude.
Leftover Cold War-era bunkers are still kept in a state of readiness to protect the population from nuclear war.
Our galactic home in the cosmos — the Milky Way — is only one of many trillions of galaxies within in the observable Universe. Do we have a twin?
The word “turkey” can refer to everything from the bird itself to a populous Eurasian country to movie flops.
Vanadium dioxide is a strange material that “remembers” information and when it was stored. This is akin to biological memory.
It weakens the bacteria so that the immune system can destroy it.