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Sep 8
Take risks to move forward: why we skip the ones worth taking, and how to tell them apart
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Sep 8
This too will pass: the proverb is a comfort in hard times and a reason to savor the good ones
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Sep 8
When you have a kid you need to be more mature, but not in the way most people mean
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Sep 7
Lake Nyos in Cameroon sits inside a 210-metre-deep volcanic crater at 1,091 metres altitude, and for decades carbon…
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Sep 7
In 1928, an English researcher named Fred Griffith noticed one strain of pneumonia bacteria could permanently transform…
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Sep 7
In 1974, humans sent their first message to the stars from a radio telescope in Puerto Rico, aimed at a cluster 25,000…
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Sep 7
Archaeologists long assumed prehistoric people only passed briefly through the Pyrenees above 2,000 metres, but a cave…
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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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