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Why Does Explaining to Others Helps Us Understand?We often fail to generate the right kind of explanation until someone forces us to. But what is a satisfactory explanation, exactly?
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5 Huge Misconceptions about AliensAstrobiologists have deduced a thing or two about what alien beings might be like. Their profile might not match your own.
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7 Huge Misconceptions about AliensAstrobiologists have deduced a thing or two about what alien beings might be like. Their profile might not match your own.
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Want to Live Longer? Move to NYCNew Yorkers' life expectancy has increased by 10 years in the past two decades, dramatically overtaking the national average.
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Why Are There Gay Women?Female sexuality is partly genetic, and partly fluid.
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Why Are There Gay Men?The genes that make men gay appear to make their mothers and aunts more reproductively successful.
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Why Do We Say 'Hmm' When Thinking?Even the Neanderthals might have tossed around this easy-to-say word.
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What If We Eradicated All Infectious Disease?There could be unforeseen consequences of a disease-free world.
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'Peekaboo' Reveals Babies Understanding of Quantum MechanicsQuantum mechanics is notoriously perplexing. But there's one set of humans who innately understand how it works.
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5 Incredible Baby SkillsCountdown Newborn babies may seem like pathetic humans, but they've got a few amazing tricks up their sleeves.
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Why Do We Have Personal Space?We all have a sense of personal space, but how and why do the invisible spheres surrounding us develop?
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Why Did Humans Prevail?Some of our hominid relatives may have had tools, language and culture. Why did we thrive while they perished?
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'Peekaboo' Reveals Babies Can Understand Quantum MechanicsQuantum mechanics is notoriously perplexing. But there's one set of humans who innately understand how it works.
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How to Watch the Venus Transit with BinocularsYou don't need any fancy equipment or filters to see the transit of Venus. Follow these five steps to turn a set of binoculars into a solar projector.
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Spectacular Texas Thundercloud Caught on VideoA huge supercell in West Texas was caught on camera.
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Why Are Genius and Madness Connected?Creative people are far more likely to be mentally ill. But why?
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Wu-Tang Clan Rapper Takes on Space in 'Dark Matter' AlbumThe hip-hop artist GZA has an album in the works about the magnificence of the cosmos.
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Does Radioactive Tuna Mean Fukushima Was Worse than Expected?Fish contaminated with Fukushima radiation have been caught in California. Do they imply that the impact of the nuclear accident was worse than we thought?
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What Are Bath Salts?Drugs marketed as "bath salts" have caused a spate of horrific acts of violence in recent years. How do they drive people so insane?
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What If the World Stopped Turning?If the world stopped spinning, a few scattered groups of hardy humans could survive.
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Cram Session: Quantum Computing in 200 Words
It could reduce complex computing times from years to seconds. Here's a quick run-down on how it works.
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Do the Easter Island Heads Really Have Bodies?Photos have been circulating that show bodies being unearthed beneath the famous Easter Island head statues. Are they real?
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Are Eyewitnesses in the Zimmerman Trial Reliable?Four key eyewitnesses in the case against George Zimmerman have changed their stories in ways that make Zimmerman seem more culpable. But which versions of their memories are accurate?
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Stuck Ketchup Problem Solved by MIT EngineersMIT engineers have come up with a bottle coating that makes thick sauces, such as ketchup, pour like milk.
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