A Loud Minority Is Warping How We See Each Other Online
You leave an hour of doomscrolling convinced the country is splintering. Outside, a neighbor you disagree with politically helps you…
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Turn Off an Eye, Teach the Brain to See
What if the way to help a weak eye is to switch it off, briefly, then let the brain reintroduce…
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AI Helps You Write Faster, But Teaches You Less
The cursor blinks. A chat box on the left, a draft on the right. Ideas flow, phrasing improves, citations appear…
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How Allergies Happen, and Why They Appear or Vanish
You sneeze at spring, your kid swells up with peanut butter, your friend suddenly cannot take acetaminophen. The through line…
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George Michael made ‘Last Christmas’ alone. Here’s why it endures.
In late 1984, a 21-year-old George Michael shut himself inside a London studio, dialed up a drum machine, stacked glittering…
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Why Neanderthal Mothers Left No Mitochondrial Trace Today
Why Neanderthal Mothers Left No Mitochondrial Trace Today Sex bias, chance, and a quiet genetic coup Open an egg cell…
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The Island That Ate Itself: Nauru’s Highs and Ruin
The Island That Ate Itself: Nauru’s Highs and Ruin From the ring road you can look inland and see a…
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Seeing the rich changes votes, but raises the temperature
From a distance, inequality looks like a sterile graph. Up close, it feels personal. A new study suggests that the…
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Why a Hard Potato Turns Tender and Fluffy in Heat
When the timer dings, the russet that knocked like a stone now yields to a fork as if it is…
