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It turns out the human body has a sort of junk drawer, too. We have a number of body parts that served an important purpose for our distant ancestors but are essentially useless now, yet continue to ...

Someone asked for fun facts to k*ll boredom and the internet delivered a treasure trove of trivia.

From The Martian to A Memory Called Empire, these six brilliant sci-fi books capture the genre at its restless, weird peak.

What Bruner calls “braking,” the Yale neuroscientist Amy Arnsten calls “regulation”—specifically, calcium regulation, which ...

The government must set ground rules to protect the public welfare as it eventually did with Big Tobacco.

The U.S. government on Tuesday launched its very own AI chatbot — or do we have to call it an SI chatbot now? Regardless, the engineers who worked on the chatbot would undoubtedly know that as a ...

Research into human-animal chimeras could have a therapeutic payoff, but the work brings up thorny ethical questions.

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A paper published recently in Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience is making some waves in trauma circles, and for good reason. Written by Steven Kotler, Michael Mannino, Glenn Fox, and Karl Friston, it ...

A WOMAN has revealed her rather unusual career – transforming teeth into sparkling rings – and even Amanda Holden is a fan. Cait Robertson works with unconventional materials to create adornments, ...

The artist behind “Mr. Jambo” and other viral spoofs may be the best musical parodist to emerge this decade. By Jason Zinoman A good musical parody can make you hear its target in a new way. A great ...