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Sep 7
Forget aging gracefully: the science says age with mischief, curiosity and a good story
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Sep 7
Biologists have catalogued thousands of parasites, but only one is known to functionally replace an organ of its host
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Sep 7
Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev agreed in July 1991 to stay aboard Mir as flight engineer for a second crew because the…
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Sep 4
Modern concrete usually crumbles within about 100 years, but a sample taken from beneath a communal latrine at…
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Sep 4
On 18 August 1868, French astronomer Pierre Janssen pointed a spectroscope at a total solar eclipse over Guntur, India…
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Sep 4
Happiness is not guaranteed by success or possessions, and the research shows exactly why
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Sep 3
Mariner 1 lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 5:21am on 22 July 1962 carrying no camera
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Sep 3
One cotton T-shirt takes about 2,700 litres of water to make
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Sep 3
Children who nap after learning a new skill retain roughly ten percent more of it the next day than children kept…
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Sep 3
The hardest part of watching a parent age isn't the physical decline, it's the role reversal nobody trained you for and…
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Sep 3
The danger of constant comparison: why the habit is rigged to leave you feeling behind
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Sep 3
From sleeplessness to sweet dreams: the strategies that actually work, in the right order
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Sep 3
When you are happy you can forgive a great deal: the psychology behind Princess Diana's line
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Sep 3
Deep roots are not reached by the frost: the two things that quietly carry us through hard seasons
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Sep 2
In the 1840s at Vienna General Hospital, women delivered by doctors died of childbed fever at more than twice the rate…
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Sep 2
Every patch of human skin the size of a pencil eraser carries roughly a million bacteria, and NASA now warns those…
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Sep 2
In 1904, an Italian aristocrat named Piero Ginori Conti wired five light bulbs to a dynamo driven by a small steam…
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Sep 2
The psychology of regret: how to let a past choice teach you, then let it go
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Sep 2
Annoying and toxic people are two different problems, and mixing them up is why people stay stuck
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Sep 2
Being a bloke is not always easy, and the hardest part is the rule that says you must cope alone
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