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Study: Lifetime musicians hear better in older age

I’m not sure this study applies to someone like Matt Heafy, but here’s some interesting new research that appears to prove the old adage of “use it or lose it.” Canadian scientists gathered one group

Potato chips: Here’s why you can’t eat just one


Arsenic-life discoverers stand by their claims

In December a group of scientists published a stunning paper in the journal Science describing their find of a strain of bacteria, pulled from the mud of a lake near Yosemite National Park in

Can we prime the brain to produce more insightful thinking?

Truth be told, scientists know very little (OK, nothing) about how the subconscious mind solves complex problems. In other words, we don’t have much insight into how the brain reaches that “aha!
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Texas scientists use cool DNA technique to nab HIV-infecting-guy

Any person infected with HIV has millions of different strains of the virus, each with tiny variations of a genome that’s 10,000 base pairs long. The virus replicates every couple of days, making a
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Taking inspiration from nature: Concrete laced with bacteria

Anyone who has driven on Houston’s roads understands an essential truth about concrete roadways and sidewalks: they crack. Dutch researchers are developing a concrete that can effectively heal itself.
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Scientists discover an alcohol with a quicker path to sobriety

Would you be more inclined to drink a particular brand of alcohol if it allowed you to sober up faster? Just add oxygen. Korean scientists have discovered that increasing the level of dissolved oxygen
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Everybody needs a nap, you see

Scientists have previously found that napping improves our ability to learn complex things by refreshing select circuits in our brains. A new study of 39 students at the University of California,
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Not on the origin of species, but the origin of life

When we speak about the subject of evolution it generally refers to the evolution of new species from older ones, such as the evolution of humans from the last common ancestor humans shared with
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How much broccoli do you have to press to make a cup of vegetable oil?

I realize you can google just about any question in the world to get an answer, but for some reason I’d never done that before with vegetable oil. What I have always wondered is, what exactly is
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