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“Cultural geology in my eye is the interface of geology and human culture,” Joe Hannibal said.Joe Hannibal is curator of invertebrate paleontology at the…
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When we think about it, we usually remember to breathe when we’re awake. But who’s at the controls when we’re sleeping?“We’re still continuing to…
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To live and function, we know cells have to eat and reproduce. But, they also have to take out the trash. What seems like a simple chore to us is actually…
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Humans have had to live with malaria for a long time. So long, in fact, that we even see changes in our genome that protect us from the disease."Sickle…
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It seems our brains are never truly quiet. We dream when we are asleep, and in sensory deprivation experiments, participants start hallucinating within 15…
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When we cool things down, classically, we can think of the atoms moving around inside the material getting slower and slower until they stop moving. That…
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“People always want to know where they came from, right? They get excited by new discoveries of dinosaurs, but they become curious by the discovery of…
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Each time our cells grow and divide, they have to perfectly copy out almost a billion elements of genetic code. Of course, perfect almost never happens.…
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In order to function, the cells in our bodies need to coordinate and pass information, say, if we need a burst of energy to flee a threat. But, without…
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Scientists have spent centuries studying how matter works. They’ve boiled it, they’ve frozen it, and they’ve even thrown it into particle colliders and…