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What Hand You Favor Shapes Your Moral Space
Psychologist Daniel Casasanto and his team have shown that for left-handers, the left side of any space connotes positive...
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Where Astronomy Meets Data
Brian P. Schmidt, 2011 Nobel Physics Prize winner, discusses his SkyMapper project, which is currently scanning the southern sky...
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Largest-Ever Simulation of the Universe Revealed
The purpose of the simulation is to reproduce the entire evolution of a universe made largely of cold dark...
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LHC Breaks Supersymmetry’s Beauty
Supersymmetry’s elegant mathematical structure was intended to replace the “standard model,” the eminently serviceable but sometimes creaky and in...
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Tantalizing Hints of Elusive Higgs Particle Announced
Two international teams of physicists have found subtle hints of what could be the Higgs boson, a particle whose...
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The Neuroscience of the Bar Mitzvah
It may be that those cultures that do not have a formal adolescent initiation ceremony do so at great...
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What If There Is No Higgs Boson?
The Large Hadron Collider finally has enough data to explore every nook and cranny where the elusive Higgs boson...
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More Evidence Found for Quantum Physics in Photosynthesis
Physicists have found the strongest evidence yet of quantum effects fueling photosynthesis. Multiple experiments in recent years have suggested...
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The Evolved Self-Management System
If placebo medicine can induce people to release hidden healing resources, are there other ways in which the cultural...
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Signal for Consciousness in Brain Marked by Neural Dialogue
Results indicate that “activity in a certain region is not sufficient to generate consciousness,” neuroscientist Simon van Gaal explains....
