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From cities that never sleep to remote rural villages, one technology is changing how we live and work. From the smartphones in our pockets... Read More
Mats Järlström's six-year crusade to make yellow traffic lights safer for drivers could finally be paying off.In mid-October, an... Read More
An international team of researchers has found a way to make bendable glass using lasers fired at crystalline aluminum oxide. In their paper... Read More
Bjørn Arne Rukke has perhaps one of the more unusual research portfolios at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH): he has... Read More
Being in zero gravity can have strange effects on the body – now it's emerged that it can make people's blood flow backwards.The... Read More
Just two organizations were responsible for the majority of anti-vaccine advertisements on Facebook before the social media giant restricted... Read More
When the immunologist De'Broski Herbert at the University of Pennsylvania looked deep inside the lungs of mice infected with influenza, he... Read More
Here's a surprise: a report of a completely new (and rather unusual) allotrope of carbon. There doesn't appear to be a manuscript out there... Read More
On February 24, 1987, a spectacular signal was seen as never before. From 165,000 light-years away, the first signals from a recently... Read More
The Ohio State House recently passed a revised education bill, now on its way to the state senate, that includes some concerning language. Read More
The evolution of life on land is commonly depicted as a fish that grows rudimentary limbs and crawls onto a beach. But the true terrestrial... Read More
A few weeks ago, I posted my list of the five most influential psychiatric thinkers of all time: Emil Kraepelin, Sigmund Freud, Eugen... Read More
These days it's easy to resolve questions about paternity with over-the-counter test kits. Now, researchers have put DNA evidence together... Read More
Thermoelectric materials can convert heat into electrical energy. This is due to the so-called Seebeck effect: If there is a temperature... Read More
For years, physicists have assumed that Cooper pairs, the electron duos that enable superconductors to conduct electricity without... Read More
The herpes virus causes cold sores and genital sores, as well as life-threatening infections in newborns, encephalitis and corneal... Read More
People often ask University of Pennsylvania psychologist Angela Duckworth what predicts success. It's an understandable question, given... Read More
A lucid dream is a dream in which the dreamer is aware that they are dreaming. As a tantalizing side effect, the sleeper may be able to take... Read More
There's a reason why companies plaster the word "PROTEIN" on their products: the macronutrient has a health halo. While carbohydrates and... Read More
In 2004, a paper appeared in the journal Psychological Science, titled “Music Lessons Enhance IQ.” The author, composer and... Read More
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