Exercise to Sleep Better (and Vice Versa!)

If you’re not sleeping well, you may not be reaching your life goals, let alone your fitness goals | Continue reading


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Is the Mathematical World Real?

Philosophers cannot agree on whether mathematical objects exist or are pure fictions | Continue reading


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New Elevation Measure Shows Climate Change Could Quickly Swamp the Mekong Delta

The surprise revelation means 12 million Vietnamese may need to retreat | Continue reading


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Destructive Amazon Fires Do Not Threaten Earth's Oxygen, Expert Says

There is enough oxygen in the air to last for millions of years | Continue reading


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Being an Optimist May Help People Live Past 85

Individuals who scored higher on an optimism assessment were likely to live significantly longer lives, a new study finds | Continue reading


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Can You Change Your Habits? An interview with Gretchen Rubin

Best-selling author Gretchen Rubin answers your questions about what it takes to change your habits and habit-forming tendencies | Continue reading


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The Neuroscience of Reality

Reality is constructed by the brain, and no two brains are exactly alike | Continue reading


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A Successful Artificial Memory Has Been Created

The growing science of memory manipulation raises social and ethical questions | Continue reading


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New Insights into Self-Insight: More May Not Be Better

An innovative study technique yields surprising results that counter the popular idea that knowing yourself is good for you | Continue reading


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Martian Winds Could Spread Microbe Hitchhikers

Microbes fly tens of miles over Chile’s dry, UV-blasted Atacama desert—and scientists say the same could happen on Mars. Christopher Intagliata reports.  | Continue reading


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Faced with a Data Deluge, Astronomers Turn to Automation

For better or worse, machine learning and big data are poised to transform the study of the heavens | Continue reading


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Disappearing Plastics Stay Strong in the Shadows and Melt Away in the Sun

The material could form self-destructing drones or sensors | Continue reading


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How to Stop Worrying

Worrying doesn’t prevent things from happening, it just means you suffer twice if they do | Continue reading


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The Search for Truth in Physics

How close can physics bring us to a truly fundamental understanding of the world? | Continue reading


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Mysterious Neutrinos Get New Mass Estimate

Cosmic calculations suggest how massive nature’s lightest matter particle could be | Continue reading


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Will China Overtake the U.S. in Artificial Intelligence Research?

The nation wants to make its AI industry dominant by 2030 | Continue reading


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Phytoplankton Population Drops 40 Percent Since 1950

Researchers find trouble among phytoplankton, the base of the food chain, which has implications for the marine food web and the world's carbon cycle | Continue reading


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Gene Editing Transforms Gel into Shape-Shifting Smart Material

The CRISPR technique can trigger the new material to release drugs or pick up biological signals | Continue reading


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Malaria Treatments Are Not Working Well

Experts worry that deaths and illness will rise in the U.S. and worldwide | Continue reading


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Flashing Neurons, Invisible Moonlight and Adorable Squid Babies: The Week's Best Science GIFs

Enjoy and loop on | Continue reading


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Can a New Lyme Disease Vaccine Overcome a History of Distrust and Failure?

Two new vaccines are in development, but it has taken researchers two decades to get this close | Continue reading


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Surprise: Bees Need Meat

Microbes in flowers are crucial to bee diets, and microbiome changes could be starving the insects | Continue reading


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Possible Links Between Warming and Tornadoes Are Still Murky

New research finds connections between ocean temperatures and tornado activity | Continue reading


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The Search for Social Identity Leads to "Us" versus "Them"

Uncertainty in the world threatens our sense of self. To cope, people embrace populism | Continue reading


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The Solar System's Loneliest Planets, Revisited

Thirty years after a probe visited Neptune, many scientists say now is the time to finally return to that world and Uranus | Continue reading


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Including Indigenous Voices in Genomics

A program at the University of Illinois trains Indigenous scientists in genomics—in hopes that future work will be aimed at benefiting those communities. Christine Herman reports.  | Continue reading


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Scientists Start Building a Parts List for the Brain

A new study provides an extraordinary close-up of the menagerie of neural cell types, yielding possible leads for neurological and psychiatric treatments | Continue reading


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Researchers Model Online Hate Networks In Effort to Battle Them

A new study identifies the network dynamics that help neo-Nazis and other extremists survive and thrive on social media—and suggests ways to defeat them | Continue reading


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MDMA, Or Ecstasy, Shows Promise As A PTSD Treatment

Scientists test how pharmaceutical-grade MDMA combines with psychotherapy to help patients with a severe form of PTSD | Continue reading


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Detained Migrant Children Need Continuous Medical Care

Health care providers say a lack of transparency and communication are barriers to ensuring the children are getting adequate, ongoing treatment | Continue reading


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Faced with Data Deluge, Astronomers Turn to Automation

For better or worse, machine learning and big data are poised to transform the study of the heavens | Continue reading


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Alaska Reels During Summer of Fire, Heat and Floods

The impacts of a changing climate have been evident around the state all season | Continue reading


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Graphics That Seem Clear Can Easily Be Misread  

Misreading data visualizations can reinforce biased perceptions | Continue reading


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How to Defraud Democracy

A worst-case cyberwarfare scenario for the 2020 American presidential election | Continue reading


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Virtual Physical Therapy Could Help Fill Gaps in Treating All Too Real Pain

At-home video sessions and apps could reduce costs and expand treatment in rural areas | Continue reading


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Alarm as Devastating Banana Fungus Reaches the Americas

The region produces most of the world’s banana exports—and the fungus affects the most popular commercial variety | Continue reading


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Truth, Lies & Uncertainty

Searching for reality in unreal times | Continue reading


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Why the U.S. Disaster Agency Is Not Ready for Catastrophes

Responding unnecessarily to smaller events has left FEMA understaffed and short of funds for major disasters | Continue reading


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A Once Common Gecko Is Vanishing from Parts of Asia

With millions of tokay geckos trapped each year for use in traditional Chinese medicine, conservationists are calling for international protections | Continue reading


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Misinformation Has Created a New World Disorder

Our willingness to share content without thinking is exploited to spread disinformation | Continue reading


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Everyone Is an Agent in the New Information Warfare

Before you click “like,” hit “pause” | Continue reading


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Why Moral Emotions Go Viral Online

A study of Twitter demonstrates the attentional power of certain words | Continue reading


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Truth, Lies & Uncertainty

Searching for reality in unreal times | Continue reading


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NASA Has Committed to a Rocket for the Europa Mission--and It Won't Be Ready on Time

Although alternatives such as SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy exist, the space agency is legally required to launch its Europa Clipper spacecraft on the behind-schedule Space Launch System | Continue reading


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California's Mount Shasta Loses a Historical Eruption

Clues from an old map erase a false 1786 event and are part of a global volcanic-record cleanup | Continue reading


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West Point Uniforms Signify Explosive Chemistry

U.S. Military Academy cadets wear the colors black, gray and gold for reasons found in gunpowder's chemistry. | Continue reading


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23andMe Is Terrifying, but Not for the Reasons the FDA Thinks

The genetic-testing company's real goal is to hoard your personal data | Continue reading


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5 of the Worst User-Interface Disasters

Why your intelligence has nothing to do with using technology | Continue reading


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