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Alison Gopnik investigates the infant mind | Continue reading
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Several towns have restored natural wetlands to absorb floodwaters | Continue reading
Study points toward lifelong neuron formation in the human brain’s hippocampus, with implications for memory and disease | Continue reading
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Savvy Psychologist Dr. Ellen Hendriksen explores the 4 grand effects of this unique emotion | Continue reading
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Declining solar costs have helped spur a move away from coal | Continue reading
Typhus and other infectious illnesses hit homeless communities | Continue reading
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Researchers hope that the procedure could be used to restore fertility to human boys undergoing cancer treatment | Continue reading
Detonating over the Bering Sea, the blast was as powerful as a nuclear bomb | Continue reading