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Study Suggests Thinking Less Is Key to Faster Learning
New research shows sometimes our own brains get in the way of acquiring new skills
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How Did an Ottoman War Camel End Up in an Austrian Basement?
Archaeologists think they have solved the mystery
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Here’s Why You Wince at Wasabi
The structure will help researchers understand pain— and create drugs that could suppress it.
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Teen Pregnancies Have Hit an All-Time Low
But teens still aren’t opting for the most effective forms of birth control
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Lady Wolf Spiders Use Silk to Flirt
Counter to the common wisdom, it’s not just males that do the pursuing
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Haas Unica, Helvetica’s long-lost sibling, is back after 30 years in obscurity
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Paintings Have Become Increasingly Blue
Move over, orange: modern art is all about hues of blue
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Drones to Plant 1 Billion Seeds in a Year (Hopefully)
Reforestation by machines is cool, but it won’t save the planet
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Meet a Hermit Crab Who Has Shacked Up in a Lego
Weird things can become home sweet home when you are a tiny soft crustacean
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Archaeologists Unfold World’s Largest Underground City in Turkey
Archaeologists find evidence to believe a site just discovered in 2012 could be a complex subsurface labyrinth
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70 Percent of Western Canada’s Glaciers Will Disappear by 2100
And that’s the conservative side of scientists’ ice melt projections
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Yet Another Reason Not to Smoke: It Gives Superbugs Superpowers
Antibiotic resistant bacteria even more resistant in the presence of cigarette smoke
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Amazonian Hallucinogen Could Be an Antidepressant
Drinking Ayahuasca, a hallucinogenic tea, could change the concentration serotonin in the brain
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At Night, Fish Communicate With Special Calls, Whistles and Grunts
Dropping a hydrophone into an underwater cave helps researchers make sense of the din
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Cash-Strapped Museums are Selling Their Art
Faced with budget cuts and debt, museums turn to “deaccessioning”
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Urchins Could Be the Next Victim of Sea Star Wasting Disease
The virus that has struck out Pacific sea star populations could now be affecting their Echinoderm cousins
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Male Mice Sing Sexy Songs to Woo Females
New research shows that mice can change their mating songs according to context
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Could NASA Stop on the Moon on the Way to Mars?
NASA’s chief of human exploration thinks we’ll need a pit stop en route to the fiery planet
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Early Flying Machines Were Just Weird
There’s a reason most designs didn’t stick around
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