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A recent study is the first to fabricate electronic components from endogenous molecules.
Research suggests parenthood helps couples tune into each other's minds and emotional states.
It’s a lot easier to point out things that are gezellig (adjective) than it is to define gezelligheid (noun) itself.
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How America became a fragile nation — and how it can get its resilience back.
With infrared capabilities and image sharpness far beyond Hubble's limits, JWST looked at Hubble's deepest field, revealing so much more.
You are an energy field — but not the “chakras” or “auras” kind.
The content of our long-term memories is constantly "reconstructed" by our brains. The same is true of memories formed mere seconds ago.
An un-crewed sailing drone discovered the unusually shaped, slumbering seamount.
Burj Al Babas may one day be full of wealthy vacationers, but for now it’s a ghost town in the center of Turkey.
The lack of friendship is particularly a problem for men. But there are easy ways to make friends.
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A University of Oxford professor explains how conscious machines are possible.
Our brainwaves naturally synchronize with external stimuli like flickering lights. Here's how the phenomenon might boost learning.
Adolescents actively shape the transformation of religion and become the bearers of new religious patterns, worldviews, and values.
John Templeton Foundation
Though he renounced philosophy, Stephen Hawking's final theory of the universe redraws the basic foundations of cosmology.
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This is not your average dream interpreter. Nightmares, as explained by a neuroscientist.
The Universe is grand, awe-inspiring, and greater than we likely imagine. Even astrophysicists get anxious thinking about it, but we cope.
It may be time for a cosmological paradigm shift.
Treating “oniomania” or compulsive buying disorder is about protecting your finances as well as your mental health.
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