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Researchers found that the popular diet could confer some benefits to your immune system.
A new study finds that societies use the same acoustic features for the same types of songs, suggesting universal cognitive mechanisms underpinning world music.
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, […]
Here are 10 physics courses you can take now with some of the best experts in the world.
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.
Researchers find what causes the glow coming from the densest objects in our universe.
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 […]
A tiny, perfectly preserved 3D fossil from Argentina tells us more about an early snake.
If an AT-AT walker (or something even larger) wanted to walk across a frozen lake, how thick would the ice have to be? Each winter, one of the most spectacular phenomena […]
Are you prone to view life as glass-half-empty? If so, don’t let it drag you down: Your day-to-day happiness level is something that was, in large part, set early in […]