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A research team led by Professor Jihyun Hong from the Department of Battery Engineering Department of the Graduate Institute ...

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At a Neolithic settlement on the Danish island Funen dating back 5,500 years, archaeologists have discovered both grinding ...

(via Veritasium) LSD-fiend, surfer, maverick — Kary Mullis might be the weirdest person ever to win the Nobel Prize.

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A recent investigation of human remains found in the UK’s Cheddar Gorge has once again brought a particularly unsavory aspect ...

Humans may think we have the market cornered on bizarre sexual acts, but the animal kingdom has come up with some mating rituals that put us to shame.

Today's approach to parenting makes children less resilient, psychologist Line Marie Warholm reports in the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten. She has written an entire book on the topic. Parents ...

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Google, Salesforce, H&M and other brands have turned to unlikely allies to help them clean up their carbon pollution: sewage treatment plants and paper mills. The companies joined an $80 million plan ...

We finally know how a fault that gave rise to Denali, North America's highest mountain, first formed. According to new research, the Denali Fault is actually an ancient suture mark where two land ...