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A faux MRI image showcases the impact of fake memories on the human brain.
The content of our long-term memories is constantly "reconstructed" by our brains. The same is true of memories formed mere seconds ago.
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An un-crewed sailing drone discovered the unusually shaped, slumbering seamount.
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Burj Al Babas may one day be full of wealthy vacationers, but for now it’s a ghost town in the center of Turkey.
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The lack of friendship is particularly a problem for men. But there are easy ways to make friends.
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8mins
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.
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Adolescents actively shape the transformation of religion and become the bearers of new religious patterns, worldviews, and values.
John Templeton Foundation
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Though he renounced philosophy, Stephen Hawking's final theory of the universe redraws the basic foundations of cosmology.
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6mins
This is not your average dream interpreter. Nightmares, as explained by a neuroscientist.
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The Universe is grand, awe-inspiring, and greater than we likely imagine. Even astrophysicists get anxious thinking about it, but we cope.
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It depends on how you define it.
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Treating “oniomania” or compulsive buying disorder is about protecting your finances as well as your mental health.
Million Stories
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There are three barriers we need to overcome to have better, more productive arguments.
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Science isn't synonymous with technology; it's about a way of thinking.
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The double-slit experiment, hundreds of years after it was first performed, still holds the key mystery at the heart of quantum physics.
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Chess could perhaps be the ultimate window through which we might see how our mental powers shift during our lives.
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For many years, some cosmologists embraced the idea of an eternal, steady state universe. But science triumphed over philosophical prejudice.
learner engagement
There are several different types of learner engagement, from emotional to cognitive. Here's how to improve each.