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Dogs know words for their favorite toys

Dogs may know more than they let on. Pet dogs’ brains displayed neural signs of surprise when...

Why You Hear Voices in Your White Noise Machine

Every night, I—like millions of others—put on a noise machine to help me sleep. Mine offers several...

Here’s what distorted faces can look like to people with prosopometamorphopsia

Imagine a person’s face. Now imagine that whenever you looked at that face, there was a chance...

A Gene-Edited Pig Kidney Was Just Transplanted Into a Person for the First Time

In a world first, surgeons in Boston have transplanted a genetically altered pig kidney into a 62-year-old...

The Feds Are Trying to Get Plants to Mine Metal Through Their Roots

Gouging a mine into the Earth is so 1924. In 2024, scientists are figuring out how to...

These are the chemicals that give teens pungent body odor

Puberty changes just about everything. Bodies get taller, muscles get stronger — and often, body odor becomes...

Timbre can affect what harmony is music to our ears

The mathematical rules for creating musical harmony may be more malleable than thought. Western music theory traditionally...

Europe Is Struggling to Coexist With Wild Bears

It was around 5 pm on March 15, and the light was fading fast, when Constantin and...

There Are Already More Measles Cases in the US This Year Than All of 2023

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Medical Association sent out separate but similar...

Watch Neuralink’s First Human Subject Demonstrate His Brain-Computer Interface

On Wednesday, Neuralink introduced the first human subject to receive the company’s brain implant, a 29-year-old man...

The World’s E-Waste Has Reached a Crisis Point

The phone or computer you’re reading this on may not be long for this world. Maybe you’ll...

American bullfrogs may be threatening a rare frog species in Brazil

American bullfrog DNA has turned up not far from the only known habitat of Pithecopus rusticus —...
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