Why Do Worms Wriggle Without a Brain?
If you were a curious child you probably played with worms. If you were a slightly cruel one you probably chopped a few in half with a sharp rock and
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Scientists Discover Key Factor in Hearing Loss
When you go to a quiet place and listen, what do you hear? If you said “nothing,” then count yourself fortunate. Personally, I hear a constant tea-kettle-shrill whistle that varies in volume and tone
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Evolutionary Misfit Finds a Home
I like to imagine Hallucigenia, a tiny, um, thing-like prehistoric animal that scientists first found baffling fossils of in the 1970s, singing a jaunty personalized version of “We’re a Couple
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Plants May Communicate With Other Plants Using Molecules
Did you ever try talking to your plants because someone told you that helps them grow? Didn’t talk back much, did they? That’s because you were talking with your mouth.
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Your Friends’ Social Media Profiles Are Made of Lies
Have you ever known someone whose Facebook page presented them in a way that you know isn’t really them? Of course you have. You know this person personally. You know they aren’t sharing
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How to Tell if Someone’s a Narcissist? Just Ask ‘Em, Scientists Say
I know this is going to sound like scientists have started letting the sub-humanoids that write those “One Weird Trick” articles you see on disreputable sites take over their research papers,
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Rosetta Becomes First Spacecraft to Journey to a Comet
Today is a historic day for solar system exploration. The European Space Agency spacecraft Rosetta ended 10 years of sailing through the solar system to come to its destination, cosmic spitting distance from comet
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Predicting Human Happiness With Math? There’s an App for That
Oh science, must you boil even the most ephemeral and life-affirming things, including the very concept of human happiness, down to complex math? Yes, of course you must. And that’s
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Transparent Mouse Provides ‘Clear’ View of Tissues for Researchers
Hey, you know what would help in studying body and brain tissue? If all of that other tissue around it didn’t get in the way and block the view. And
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Fossil Clues Point to Theory That All Dinosaurs Were Feathered
The scaly, green, slavering, purely reptilian dinosaur had a good run. Like Pluto as a planet, it’s being replaced by a new scientific understanding, and we just might have
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