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The Unsexy Truth About Dopamine
If there were a celebrity among brain chemicals, it would be dopamine. Supposedly released whenever we experience something pleasurable,...
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Richard III dig: DNA confirms bones are king’s
A skeleton found beneath a Leicester car park has been confirmed as that of English king Richard III. Experts...
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Are We Running Out Of Scientific Geniuses?
Is the world clear out of geniuses? Will we ever have another Copernicus, another Darwin, another Einstein to shatter...
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You May Have Been Born to Flock
More than 70,000 people will flood into the Superdome in New Orleans this weekend, while thousands more swarm through...
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Magnetic Logic Makes for Mutable Computer Chips
Software can transform a computer from a word processor to a number cruncher to a video telephone. But the...
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Water Demand for Energy to Double by 2035
The amount of fresh water consumed for world energy production is on track to double within the next 25...
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It’s (Almost) Alive! Scientists Create a Near-Living Crystal
Three billion years after inanimate chemistry first became animate life, a newly synthesized laboratory compound is behaving in uncannily...
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Monster Magnetic Lobes Blow From Galactic Core
When discussing magnetic fields, images of the sun’s coronal loops or simulations of Earth’s magnetosphere may come to mind....
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The Placebo Phenomenon: An ingenious researcher finds the real ingredients of “fake” medicine.
For the last 15 years, Kaptchuk and fellow researchers have been dissecting placebo interventions—treatments that, prior to the 1990s,...
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Is Scientific Truth Always Beautiful?
Does science have a “beauty” problem? David Orrell, a mathematician and consultant, argues that it does—or, at least, that...