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Scientists in Japan have discovered why yawning is so contagious.
New research suggests that whale stranding are the result of the navigational mistakes cause by the same magnetic anomalies that produce the aurora borealis.
These may not be the only social predators that do.
135,355 people in eighteen countries can’t be wrong.
A US-based company is genetically creating proteins similar to bovine collagen to make leather from living cells without the need of animals.
Turns out, organisms may be using quantum mechanics to gain evolutionary advantages.
Scientists are calling the results of such fortifications “bionicomposites.”
We’re talking Ghost in the Shell type of stuff.
A new study offers a theory of how the Universe was filled with visible light, up to a billion years after the Big Bang.
The Three-Body Problem series lays out a powerful case for why we should stop looking for aliens, and solves the Fermi paradox.
A piece of legislation to address the problem is getting widespread support. Yet, it’s stalled.
The FDA approves the first “living drug” cell therapy for childhood leukemia.
Pocket-sized therapies, like counseling apps, are praised as a timely solution to the budgetary pressures and long waiting lists of overstretched mental health services. But do they work?
Sweating is your body’s way of regulating internal temperature. It’s not a cleansing program.
Hidden genes are at play in many species of birds and one desert-bound gerbil.
Australian scientists discover how complex life first appeared on Earth – one of the “greatest mysteries of science”.
What if your car was an extension of yourself? Neuroscience, art, and engineering combine to give us a glimpse of that future.
In this radical view, the universe is a giant supercomputer processing particles as bits.
Scientists from the department of NanoEngineering at the University of California San Diego were able to successfully use chemically-powered micromotors to deliver antibiotics in the gut of a mouse and […]
Once the realm of psychotic disorders, we now know that hallucinations are widespread.
Much of our sense of what is attractive comes into focus when viewed through the lens of successful reproduction.
A new study shows the link between the quality of a job and mental health.
A complex biological system must work in concert for gaze detection to occur.
New research on mice at UCLA could hold a key for humans with sleep disorders.
Imagine getting imperceptibly high, then playing Chinese strategy game ‘Go’. This is the experiment the Beckley Foundation will run to test the value of LSD microdosing.
Apparently bees can understand zero, making them the first invertebrate members of an exclusive club.
The discovery in Kenya of a 13-million-year-old fossil skull unearths the common ancestor of humans and apes.
The deepest, funniest, weirdest moments from the past year of the Think Again podcast. Featuring Daniel Dennett, Sarah Goldhagen, Ian McEwan, Alison Gopnik, Erik Kandel, and Alan Alda.
A new study of 46,034 brain scans suggests women’s brains are more active than men’s.