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Get Your Geek On: The Cutting Edge of Science
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It used to be that having a “bird brain” was an insult. Now, it’s practically a compliment!
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What if we could turn back time and reverse extinction?
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How do dogs perceive you and the world around them?
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Music exists in every human culture and drives a multibillion-dollar industry, and yet the vast majority of people who enjoy music do instinctively, without any formal trainin...
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Luckily for us, a truly sustainable world already exists. Life on Earth had been in perfect balance for 3.8 billion years, and the secrets to that sustainability are still all...
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Learn about the latest technological developments in gene editing.
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Our drive to create makes us unique among living things. What is special about the human brain that enables us to innovate? Why don’t cows choreograph dances? Why don’t alliga...
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As scientists have slowly come to grasp the seriousness of climate change, many have begun to doubt that humans can transition away from fossil fuels fast enough to avoid seri...