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How Memory Works: The Neuroscience of Remembering and Forgetting
You remember your first day at school but not what you had for lunch three Tuesdays ago. You can ride a bicycle…
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How Your DNA Works: The Three-Billion-Letter Code Inside You
Inside nearly every cell of your body sits a molecule containing about three billion “letters” — a complete instruction manual for building…
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How the Periodic Table Was Built and Why It Still Grows
It hangs on the wall of every chemistry classroom on earth: rows and columns of symbols that claim to organise all matter.…
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What Quantum Entanglement Actually Means: A Plain-English Physics Explainer
Quantum entanglement is one of the most famous ideas in physics — and one of the most misunderstood. Pop culture treats it…
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How the Scientific Method Works: From Hypothesis to Peer Review
Science has an unmatched record of figuring out how the world works — from vaccines to semiconductors to the age of the…
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Cat Urine Holds a Hidden ‘ID Card’, Scientists Find
Researchers have found that every cat's urine carries a unique chemical signature, a hidden 'ID card' that may explain scent marking.
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Einstein’s ‘Spooky Action’ Passes Extreme Physics Test
Quantum entanglement, Einstein's 'spooky action at a distance', has survived one of the most extreme experimental tests yet.
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Dead Sea Scrolls Mystery Solved After 2,000 Years
Scientists say new research may have solved a 2,000-year-old mystery about the origins of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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Mars Crater May Reveal Origin of Doomed Moon Phobos
A giant crater on Mars could explain how Phobos, the planet's doomed moon, was born, scientists say.
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Ancient DNA explains 400 years of plague returns
Ancient DNA research shows how plague bacteria survived in animal reservoirs and kept re-emerging for 400 years after the Black Death.