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With Identical Neurons, Two Worm Species Live Very Different Lives
Two species of worms have the same set of 20 neurons that control their foregut (a digestive organ located,...
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What If Earth Became Tidally Locked?
There’s a reason we only ever see one side of the Moon. It’s tidally locked to the Earth, presenting...
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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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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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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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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...
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Hubble’s Latest Mind Blowing Cosmic Pictures
The Hubble Space Telescope has been looking deep into the Cosmos for over two decades returning over a million...
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Urban Heat May Warm Faraway Places
The massive amounts of heat produced by cities may be heating up rural areas 1,000 miles away, atmospheric researchers...
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Europe Gives 2 Billion Euros to Science
Research projects investigating the “miracle material” graphene and the human brain have won unprecedented funding of up to 1...