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"Of course, the spleen is the biggest organ in the body."
Take a trip through these master-crafted fantasy societies and ask yourself: Could I actually live there?
"Painfully forced" is how one contemporary critic described Fitzgerald's writing style.
3D-printing robots are being used to build a 100-home housing development in the US state of Texas.
Extreme home environments — either very supportive or harshly negligent — tend to produce more sensitive kids.
planetary nebulae infrared spitzer
What kind of object will you form? What will its fate be? How long will a star live? Almost everything is determined by mass alone.
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The Apple Watch could soon take the pain out of monitoring blood sugar levels.
Archaeologists turn to other scientific fields to fill in the picture of how victims lived and why they died.
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An innovation's value is found between the technophile’s promises and the Luddite’s doomsday scenarios.
Great Pyramid
A non-invasive method for looking inside structures is solving mysteries about the ancient pyramid.
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New research shows psychedelics activate receptors inside brain cells that other compounds, like serotonin, cannot.
The soft robotic models are patient-specific and could help clinicians zero in on the best implant for an individual.
Scientists are still figuring out why tirzepatide causes weight loss. One theory is that they “accidentally” created a new hormone.
The strange bronze artifact perplexed scholars for more than a century, including how it traveled so far from home.
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Their working memory outclasses ours.
“We are biologically programmed to have empathy. It’s something we can’t suppress.”
What the hell is “re-engineering business value creation systems” anyway?
rcw 86 supernova remnant spitzer
If stars don't go supernova at first, they can get a second chance after becoming a white dwarf. But can their companions survive?
financial mindfulness
Mindfulness may be especially useful for gaining more control of your impulses to spend.
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