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We’ve all been there. Stuck in our own heads, fixated on a two-minute conversation from three days ago. We replay it over and over.… | Continue reading
It’s a bit of a bummer that dreams are as fascinating as they are hard and expensive to study. Famed psychologists like Sigmund… | Continue reading
It’s a bit of a bummer that dreams are as fascinating as they are hard and expensive to study. Famed psychologists like Sigmund… | Continue reading
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“It’s really hard to define what’s special about neurons,” says Tufts molecular biologist Michael Levin. “Almost all cells… | Continue reading
“It’s really hard to define what’s special about neurons,” says Tufts molecular biologist Michael Levin. “Almost all cells… | Continue reading
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The small wonders of the natural world impressed Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya early. As a girl, growing up in Atlanta, she was encouraged… | Continue reading
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Suppose aliens existed, and imagine that some of them had been watching our planet for its entire four and a half billion years. What… | Continue reading