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Is the pen really mightier than the keyboard? I know a professor who begins each semester by pointing out that, according to聽this one study, students perform better on tests when their notes were...
If you鈥檙e scrolling through Instagram while waiting in line at the grocery store, you might have stumbled upon ear seeds. The photos show close-ups of ears dotted with tiny piercings assembled like...
It would have been easy to dismiss the claim out of hand by playing armchair skeptic, but I decided instead to stuff the lawn clippings in my mouth. It really did look like someone had been chasing...
It may be surprising to learn that the credited inventor of the most important workhorse in molecular biology鈥攖he polymerase chain reaction or PCR鈥攐nce claimed he had seen a talking fluorescent...
