Kristen French

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    The World’s Tiniest Wave Tank

    This ocean on a chip unlocks the mysteries of rogue waves, tsunamis, and other aquatic oddities

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    This Inca Building was the Original Boom Box

    A 600-year-old temple was likely designed to amplify drum beats and music

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    How Scavenging Made Us Human

    Our early ancestors were more like vultures than we might like to think

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    Daydream Your Way to Life-Changing Insights

    Certain kinds of mind wandering can lead to powerful epiphanies

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    Extraterrestrials are People, Too

    Should we grant legal rights to extraterrestrial lifeforms before we find them?

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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