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A new study finds that societies use the same acoustic features for the same types of songs, suggesting universal cognitive mechanisms underpinning world music.
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The space station sector has exciting potential as more private companies enter the conversation.
The Moon, Venus, and Jupiter are the brightest night sky objects. On Thursday evening, November 28, they’ll all align, plus Saturn, too. As the planets orbit the Sun throughout the year, […]
Some lingerie lines have failed to keep up with a new era.
Here are 10 physics courses you can take now with some of the best experts in the world.
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Whether the data prove you right or wrong, it's crucial to ask: what else is it telling me?
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We need to enact policies founded on solid research — more importantly, though, we have to stop suppressing research into hot topics.
Do we suffer from birth anxiety like we suffer from death anxiety?
Research found that overweight children were just as smart but not as successful.
MIT team successfully tests a new method for verification of weapons reduction.
Dominant wild silverbacks wax musical with their mouths full.
Playwright and novelist Deborah Levy on chaos and order in creative work. Also: marvelous digressions on the caterpillar and the octopus.
The shape of our Universe has long been recognized to be flat. But that isn’t the only possibility. The Universe is expanding, and goes on for farther than even our […]
The Internet Research Agency has learned that you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
So why should we keep using them?
Researchers find what causes the glow coming from the densest objects in our universe.
There's a reason they call work "work."
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To stay on top in the business world, you have to make sure your business model matches the times.
It’s true that we have a thermodynamic arrow of time, and entropy always increases. But that can’t explain what we perceive. One of the enormous conceptual ideas that came along […]
"The hardest thing is the flying side of things."