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Finding this missing piece of water’s path through the universe offers clues to how it came to be on Earth.
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The study was small and didn't include a placebo group, but there is reason to believe that the drugs really do work.
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The ability to decode acoustic information from brain activity aids the development of brain-computer interfaces that restore communication in patients who suffer paralysis.
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Considering the perspectives of others has important benefits for individuals and for society. There is one easy way to do it.
John Templeton Foundation
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A new study provides the most detailed look at brains on psychedelics to date.
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She apparently learned some valuable business skills as a former prostitute.
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Humanity can avoid catastrophe — if we look beyond our blinkered present.
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Americans without friends have increased 400% in recent years. Here’s why.
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What beavers and earthworms can teach us about working with, not against, Mother Nature.
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Our huge, expanding Universe may truly be infinite. But if the set of possible quantum outcomes is also infinite, which "infinity" wins?
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The multiverse is an idea that has gained a lot of traction in popular culture. But what does science have to say about it?
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The story of China is the story of global economics.
Million Stories
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In order to figure out how English might evolve in the future, we have to look at how it has changed in the near and distant past.
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Dig a 70-mile tunnel under the Bering Strait, and you get this amazing InterContinental Railway, which will reshape the world.
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Psychedelics mess with our prior beliefs, and could help us see what forms these beliefs in the first place.
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With a finite 13.8 billion years having passed since the Big Bang, there's an edge to what we can see: the cosmic horizon. What's it like?
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If you’re trying to break a bad habit or start a good one, psychologists have some tips.
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If the evolution of the Universe is a movie, what happens when we rewind it all the way backward?