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Playing Video Games Could Actually Change Your Brain—But Not in a Bad Way
Despite video games’ bad rep, they might improve a person’s strategizing and multi-tasking abilities
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Nearly Half of Americans Believe At Least One Conspiracy Theory
William S. Burroughs once said, “Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.”
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This Rare Footage Shows Two Live 15-Foot-Long Oarfish Swimming in the Ocean
Two very shy oarfish were seen swimming near the shoreline in Mexico
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Here’s How Neuroscientists in the 1800s Studied Blood Flow in the Brain
New translations of early neuroscience reveal how in 1882 one Italian physiologist was able to measure blood flow changes in the brain
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Bison Running Away From Earthquakes? Not So Fast
A video of bison running through Yellowstone sparked speculation that they were running away from an earthquake. They weren’t
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Ancient Wandering Shepherds Spread Crops Across Eurasia
The nomadic shepherds of central Asia joined east and west
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Saturn’s Icy Moon Enceladus May Have a Giant Liquid Water Lake
New proof that Enceladus is a watery world
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Almost 65 Years After Its Pieces Were Dispersed, Scientists Reconstructed a Long-Lost Dinosaur Chase
A lost set of dinosaur footprints in Texas has been reconstructed from 70-year-old photographs
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Rather than being the descendants of feral mutts, dingoes are actually in their own unique taxonomical corner
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Computers Are Learning How To Teach Each Other New Skills
Why would you teach a computer how to teach other computers how to murder more efficiently?
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Watch How Tuesday’s Tsunami Waves Moved From Chile All the Way to Australia
A computer model shows how the tsunami crossed the Pacific
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Oxytocin Encourages People to Think More About the Group, Less About Themselves
It’s not that oxytocin makes people act in a good or bad way, just in a way that best serves the interests of their people
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Watch This Hypnotic Time Lapse Video of Coral
Corals are animals, rooted to the ocean floor but capable of some hypnotically beautiful movement, as this time lapse video shows
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How the Zebra Got Its Stripes, According to Science
Rather than acting as camouflage or social signals, zebra stripes seem to deter biting flies
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There Are Too Many Pink Salmon in the Pacific
Pink salmon populations are booming, at the expense of other species
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California’s Snowpack is 68 Percent Below Normal, Threatening Another Dry Summer
California’s snowpack is running low, a bad sign for a state plagued by drought
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Sometimes Scientists Just Need to Be Left Alone
Proponents for alone time—Isaac Newton, included—think silence can be a precondition for a great breakthrough
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It Is Now Technically Possible to Stop an Earthquake
Scientists have devised a way to reflect seismic waves
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“Happy Disgust” Is a Newly Recognized Human Facial Expression
Basic emotions like happy, sad or angry blend in interesting ways on the landscape of the human face
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Heat Increases the Risk of Early-Term Delivery
As temperatures rise, delivery rooms see a peak in early-term babies
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