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Why Doctors Can’t Name Female Anatomy
A vulva by any other name … causes confusion and unnecessary suffering.
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What Happens to My Brain on the Psychedelic DMT?
One question for Christopher Timmermann, a cognitive neuroscientist at Imperial College London.
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How Snails Cross Vast Oceans
The intrepid travelers are widely dispersed despite their sedentary lifestyle.
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Shadows in the Big Bang Afterglow Reveal Invisible Cosmic Structures
Cosmologists are using secondary signatures from the cosmic microwave background to map the universe’s hidden matter.
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The Lasting Power of Good Memories
A positive spin on our past can help inure us against pain.
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Even Machine Brains Need Sleep
Without some downtime, artificial neural networks become catastrophically forgetful.
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When Mary Wollstonecraft Was Duped by Love
A spotlight on the personal life of the trailblazing philosopher.
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The Explosive Chemist Who Invented Smokeless Gunpowder
James Dewar, the creator of cordite, likely helped win World War I. But why never a Nobel?
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Does More Money Make Us Happier?
One question for Matt Killingsworth, a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania.
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What Nuclear War Means for the Ocean
Nuclear winter is just the beginning.
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What Plants Are Saying About Us
Your brain is not the root of cognition.
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How Will the Universe Evolve?
One question for Jillian Scudder, astrophysicist and author of “The Milky Way Smells of Rum & Raspberries.”
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What Makes Us Bold
A parasite infection can make a leader of the pack—or a dead wolf.
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How Our Reality May Be a Sum of All Possible Realities
Richard Feynman’s path integral is both a powerful prediction machine and a philosophy about how the world is. But physicists are still struggling to figure out how to use it, and what it means.
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The Secret Life of the North Pole
A universe of microbes is melting with Arctic ice—with consequences for us all.
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The Body Electric
We are formed by more than DNA. Meet the bioelectric code.
