Kristen French

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    Has Culture Overtaken Genes in Human Evolution?

    How we adapt is shifting

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    Rogue Wave Mystery Solved

    Each leviathan of the deep has a signature that can be used to forecast it

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    Why This 17-Year-Old Girl Can’t Forget

    Some people have extraordinary powers of mental time travel

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    How Phantom Limb Tricks Us

    New maps of the brain may explain why amputees feel pain in the void

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    When the Ocean Floor Came Alive

    The first map of the Atlantic seafloor revealed a dynamic world under the waves

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    Stalagmites Offer Clues to Maya Mystery

    Chemical fingerprints point to reason for collapse

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    Pedestrians Are Walking Faster

    How we behave in the urban wilds has changed

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    Can You Name That Tune?

    A new online game could help researchers solve the mysteries of musical memory

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    Nice Microbes Finish First

    Aggression doesn’t always pay in dynamic microcosms

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    Longevity Might Be All In Your Head

    The biological age of your organs could predict your health—and death