Blah Blah Blah: The Lack of Small Talk Is Breaking Our Brains
Chit-chat is often dismissed as mindless and boring. But its absence over the past year is affecting you more than you think
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Housebound and Bored? Turn Yourself into a Human Guinea Pig
During a time of endless lockdowns, self-discovery sometimes means self-experimentation
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What’s More Dangerous than Leaping Out of a Plane?
Most things, it turns out. But science rarely shapes our decision making the way fear does
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Discovering the Universe through the World’s Largest Telescope
The ALMA array is our most powerful tool for witnessing the birth of new planets
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Are Plants Listening to Us? It Depends Who You Ask
A controversial 1970s book claimed that plants can hear. It turns out its authors might not have been entirely wrong
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Anatomy of a Pandemic
Like major contagions throughout history, the new coronavirus causes fear as well as illness. The remedy for both, it turns out, is the same
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