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This story is crap: A history of human excrement
If there’s one thing we have in common with our ancestors, it’s that they were just as dismayed with their ...
Brain zapping may be a new type of snake oil. But it might also work—in some instances
According to the advertising hype, you too can enjoy incredible neural and psychological benefits in the comfort of your own ...
‘Dreaming must be important’. But we still don’t really know why we do it.
In an extensive 2012 literature review, the psychologist Matthew Merced notes that, even though nobody knows for certain why we ...
Climate change could accelerate demand for robot farmers
It’s harvest season in the Northern hemisphere, so farmers head into the fields to gather the fruit of their hard ...
Synthetic biology launches into new frontier
Researchers have built something pretty weird—an artificial stingray. The tiny creation, made of silicon, gold, and human muscle cells, was actually ...
