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Here's why mega-eruptions like the ones that covered North America in ash are the least of your worries.
Symbolic gestures often speak to our psyche in ways no rational action could ever speak to our intellect.
Anxieties about being identified will be superseded by fears of being analyzed.
Peaky Blinders Tommy Shelby
The Netflix show about a Birmingham crime family and their personal demons concluded earlier this month. 
Sick of remembering a random string of letters, numbers, and special characters?
dog cancer vaccine
A successful trial that tested a vaccine against bladder cancer in dogs could help develop a similar one for humans.
A painting of a brown monkey sitting on the ground with one hand raised to its mouth, looking to the left with a surprised expression.
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He's studied apes for 50 years - here's what most people get wrong.
John Templeton Foundation
airships
The airships have a range of 4,000 nautical miles, can fly for five days, and can cruise as high as 20,000 feet at 80 mph. They take to the skies over Spain in 2026.
Amazon river
The architecture and infrastructure found may well have required the greatest amount of skilled labor of any construction from the same time period in the entire continent. 
The weird and wild ways mummy fever swept through Europe.
longest gravitational waves
LIGO can detect the inspirals and mergers of the lowest-mass black holes, but not the biggest ones. Here's how pulsars can help.
solar geoengineering
An out-of-this-world idea could help reduce some of the risk of solar geoengineering.
photosynthesis
Photosynthesis is powerful but very inefficient. Humans can improve on this biochemical process to help the planet.
Two ICU physicians offer a new approach to stopping it.
Seattle slowly raised its minimum wage to $15 per hour. The results provide fuel for both sides of the minimum wage debate.
silicon life
On Earth, carbon can form millions of compounds, while silicon is largely stuck inside rocks. But elsewhere, silicon could form the basis of life.
There's a fatal prion infection killing deer and elk across North America.
Genghis Khan
Unlike other world rulers, Genghis Khan was laid to rest not inside an elaborate mausoleum but an unmarked grave somewhere in Mongolia. Maybe.
What's one of the most reliable indicators that a first date is going well? The answer might lie in how closely the couple is matching each other's behavior and physiology. […]