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These ten maps provide a fascinating insight into the impact that soccer (sorry, football) has had worldwide.
The quantum world is one in which rules that are completely foreign to our everyday experience dictate bizarre behavior.
Mycobacterium leprae, the bacteria that cause leprosy, have the surprising ability to grow and reverse aging in armadillo livers.
You only have 4,000 weeks of life. Use them wisely.
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Stress shrinks your brain. Neuroscientist Lisa Genova explains how to strengthen it.
The strongest tests of curved space are only possible around the lowest-mass black holes of all. Their small event horizons are the key.
New memories appear to be stabilized in the brain by a neurotransmitter called gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA).
The metaverse is inevitable because it is hardwired into our DNA.
Caffeine does something, but it's not clear exactly what.
Maybe the brain isn't "classical" after all.
It's on a 100,000-year timescale, though, so the next few centuries might not be so comfortable.
"All moments past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist."
The larger truth on the streets is that no one uses just one drug anymore.
Historical analyses reveal that crises almost always yield surprising benefits.
"Downward counterfactual thinking" — that is, imagining how things could be worse — is a quick and easy way to boost your well-being and gratitude.
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A psychiatrist studied 1,000 near-death experiences. Here’s what he discovered.
Leftover Cold War-era bunkers are still kept in a state of readiness to protect the population from nuclear war.
The word “turkey” can refer to everything from the bird itself to a populous Eurasian country to movie flops.
Vanadium dioxide is a strange material that "remembers" information and when it was stored. This is akin to biological memory.