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Ice Skating and the Brain

How do champion skaters accomplish their extraordinary jumps and spins? Brain science is uncovering clues.By Pam BelluckPam Belluck is a neuroscience reporter and...

Jane Goodall Is More of a Dog Person, Actually

Here I am registered at Cambridge, and very nervous. First thing, I was told that I’ve done everything wrong. Chimps shouldn’t be named,...

Why the Solar Eclipse Will Not Leave People Without Power

When the sky darkens during next month’s solar eclipse, electricity production in some parts of the country will drop so sharply that it...

Daniel Kahneman, Who Plumbed the Psychology of Economics, Dies at 90

Daniel Kahneman, who never took an economics course but who pioneered a psychologically based branch of that field that led to a Nobel...

Ancient ‘Dune’-like Sandworm Existed Far Longer Than Thought

With a head covered in rows of curved spines, ancient Selkirkia worms could easily be confused with the razor-toothed sandworms that inhabit the...

All Orcas Are Classified as a Single Species. Should They Be?

Killer whales are some of the most cosmopolitan creatures on the planet, swimming through every one of the world’s oceans. They patrol the...

4 Takeaways From the Abortion Pill Arguments

A majority of the Supreme Court seemed inclined on Tuesday to reject a bid to sharply limit access to abortion pills.During about 90...

Abortion Pill Dispute Centers on Central Question: Who Can Sue?

The future of access to abortion pills may turn on a basic legal question: Who has a right to bring a lawsuit?Among the...

Do Birds Dream?

In the 19th century, when the German naturalist Ludwig Edinger performed the first anatomical studies of the bird brain and discovered the absence...

Bird Flu Spreads to Dairy Cows

A highly fatal form of avian influenza, or bird flu, has been confirmed in U.S. cattle in Texas and Kansas, the Department of...

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