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Why dreams get more bizarre further into the night
The creatures that populate dreams may or may not have personal wisdom to impart, but they are invaluable to researchers...
Brighter fairy-wrens are better parents
It is said that the peacock's tail gave Darwin nightmares. Why females prefer males with more elaborate plumage (that make...
It takes the prairie vole four months to get over his ex
Prairie voles live and preferentially mate with a single (pair-bonded) partner. They also jointly rear pups. However, male voles mate...
Researchers estimate the Preferred Walking Speed of T-rex
Weighing more than 5000 kg, with knife-like teeth and tiny toddler arms, T-rex was the top dog in the late...
Hoax article published in predatory journal – “What’s the deal with birds?”
The culture of publishing articles without proper peer-review, and merely for the submission fee money has a long and glorious...
Low childhood SES has lasting negative impact on immune response in men
Low Socioeconomic Status (and associated scarcity of resources, early exposure to infections, and nutritional stress), unpredictability (familial conflict), and abuse...
Patient loses the Theory of Mind to brain injury
Traumatic brain injury often leads to sensory-motor (paralysis) or cognitive deficits. In a subset of these cases, the patients are...
Sharks use the earth’s magnetic field as GPS
Birds, sea turtles, lobsters, newts, and even bacteria are known to be able to sense the earth's magnetic field and...
People who wear masks on their chin/neck are greater liars
Of the three kinds of people that exist in 2021, two - people who wear masks properly and people who...
Blocking opioid receptors reduces social bonding during religious rituals
In 2019, a large-scale survey by Pew Research Center done in 35 countries found that actively religious people (people who...
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