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Narcoleptic Naps Are a Creative Sweet Spot
A recently identified stage of sleep common to narcoleptics is a fertile source of creativity.
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New Telescopes Will Help Us SETL
Extraterrestrial life doesn’t need to be intelligent to be worth finding.
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When Will Fusion Energy Light Our Homes?
One question for Thomas Nicholas, a computational plasma physicist and former fusion researcher who now studies climate science at Columbia University.
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Encouraging Conservation Through Communication
Two Jackson Wild fellows on what we can learn from the birds.
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Mobile Genes From the Mother Shape the Baby’s Microbiome
Tiny genetic sequences in a mother’s bacteria seem to hop into the infant’s bacteria, perhaps ensuring a healthy microbiome later in life.
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The Mystery of the Healthy Coral Reef
A reef off the coast of Honduras should be a disaster. Instead it’s thriving.
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What Is Our Universe Expanding Into?
One question for Paul Sutter, a theoretical cosmologist at Stony Brook University.
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Why Reading Your Doctor’s Notes Can Be Painful
A physician diagnoses the problem with medical notes—with a prescription for change.
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Mother Nature’s 7 Lessons for a Safer World
The best defense can be learned from the evolution of the animal immune system.
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The Vanishing Animals of Hispaniola
An inside look at efforts to save rare and endangered species in the Dominican Republic.
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The Ecological Catastrophe You’ve Never Heard Of
In 12 minutes, a landslide, tsunami, and flood devastated a valley in Canada.
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Should People Live on the Moon?
One question for Joseph Silk, an astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University.
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Will We Know Alien Life When We See It?
The defining problem in the search for ET.
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The Brain Uses Calculus to Control Fast Movements
Researchers discover that to sharpen its control over precise maneuvers, the brain uses comparisons between control signals—not the signals themselves.
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The Remarkable Emptiness of Existence
Early scientists didn’t know it, but we do now: The void in the universe is alive.
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How Is TikTok Affecting Mental Health?
One question for J.D. Haltigan, an assistant professor of child and youth mental health at the University of Toronto.
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Yes, Your Loud Neighbors Are Driving You Bonkers
Why are we so sensitive to residential noise?
